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Hi! Thank you for your reply to my poetry post last week. I didn't recall hearing of Lear, but I have plenty of respct for any fan of birds. And as a fan of Zhuangzi, Li Bai, and follower of Lao Tzu, I think I'd quite agree with the philosophy behind literary nonsense.

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Furthermore, I think neologism is one of the finest arts in poetry. :)

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2025.09.10 // Land of the Lustrous (宝石の国) final volume being released in English on 4 Nov!!!!!!!!

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2025.09.09 // Waking up and not knowing what to read is worse than waking up with your last pack of Spirits on empty. The drive to read the next book I've *planned* is overwhelm---What's this? Moby-Dick; or, the Whale? The Arion 1983 paperback edition I picked up for $5 because it looks like someone dipped the edges in the UV machines they use in hotel air purifiers? Don't mind if I do.

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This copy of Moby-Dick is a reprint of an unbelievably fancy version from four years earlier. Some gorgeous hand-set thing that sold for $1k *in 1979*. You can now pick one up for $22,000, or $50k if you'd like the white-bound version.

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Hi Lexi, thanks for your response to my post about poetry last week. I agree on all three of the qualifiers (haunting, beautiful, relatable) you attributed to Plath.

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I read some for my roommate from my poetry anthology. Refreshing myself on her biography reminded me that I never read The Bell Jar! So that's on the shopping list now.

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zazilicious 2 days ago

awesome!!

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2025.09.07 // Check out my first review with the Reading Project here on Neocities!!! I was going to review MYRR there next, but I finished it too quickly. Um, read it!! It's really funny and great. The narrator sucks so bad oh my god. Just a horrible friend, I love her.

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Coming in late November I'll be reviewing Alan Moore's Jerusalem. Check out Reading Project, if you somehow know of my page but not theirs. It's quite the collective database.

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Hello! Thanks for responding to my post earlier this week. I've looked into Xuan Quynh, who is unfortunately not featured in my Norton Anthology. In English, I found a few paragraphs of biographical information on one webpage, four poems translated by Thanh Kha group, and one by K.T. Tuan. Archive didn't even have any books by her :( However, I did find a YouTube video of "Top 5 Bài Hay Nhất của Xuân Quỳnh", recited

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by Viet Thanh. The translated poetry I read was so wonderful and song-like, more so than most poetry by a long shot. My favourite was "Heart sings". I found myself smiling softly quite often, the unknown quality of these translations nonwithstanding.

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After listening to the original Vietnamese, I understood much more why they feel so song-like. Thanks again for the recommendation :)

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floralchai 1 week ago

I'm glad you enjoyed "Heart sings" poem, there is also "Waves" and "Noon rooster", are the poems I like a lot. And yes, I think you do realized some of her poems has been set to music a long while now :]] Maybe I would post some of my favorite poem translations to the site and link the sources

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readsable 1 week ago

That's a wonderful idea!!

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2025.09.03 // With 10 comment a day limit, I will be getting back to all the poetry recs over the course of the week. I have some exciting news regarding a group here on Neocities I will be collaborating with--more info Friday!

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Also good news--my bookstore finally got MYRR for me! I finished it in <48hr haha. I would give my review but... there are relevant reasons for which I must wait!

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Hello, thanks for responding to my post the other day, and for recommending Audre Lorde! I read your two recs, as well as Coal, Echoes, and her essay "The Master's Tools..."

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I turned to my old Norton Anthology to see if we had read any of her work in my courses, and I immediately remembered Coal. Her enjambment makes her work very fun to read aloud.

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I also read the brief bio on Lorde on Poetry Foundation. My personal favourite line of anything I read was the second from Hanging Fire: "and my skin has betrayed me". To speak of lived experience, this is mine every day! Take care.

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To be clear, the line is likely about race and/or puberty, but it really hit home re: autoimmune diseases. I think some variant of that line every week it seems.

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Oh, finally, I was excited to hear about *Zami: A New Spelling of My Name* as it brought the term "biomythography" to me. I'm quite passionate about the seamless blending of truth and lies in the context of fiction.

girl-wonderlost 1 week ago

so happy you dived into her work, her legacy and words are so so important to me. and totally agree about the enjambment, she's also such a great orator and and hearing her read her own work aloud is so satisfying

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readsable 1 week ago

Wow! You're right; she is so very sonorous.

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Thanks for replying to my post. I do remember hearing about the Smith version, now, but not the fact that the second stanza shifts ahead to a fallen London, reclaimed by nature. Real cool to hear from the early 19th c.

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readsable 1 week ago

I ended up on a tangent via Wikipedia, finding "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven" by Barbauld. It presages the hegemonic rise of the U.S. by 130 years, somehow.

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A belated thank you for stating that I had been featured on the front page. I was wondering where all those views had come from. :)

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