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hii! can i get book recs & also poetry book recs & articles to read too!
Heyyyyy, i'm sorry it took me so long to come back to you, i just discovered this place it's shutting down and didn't want to leave u answer-less 🤕
Probably have shared most of these through different posts and times, but here you go (you didn't specify any kind of genre, so i'm going to list just some of the favorites i can name from the top of my head)
Books:
• Entre los rotos - Alaíde Ventura
• Demian - Herman hesse
• Please look after mom - Kyung-sook Shin
• Waiting for Godot - Samuel beckett
• Flights - Olga tokarczuk
• On earth we're briefly gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
• Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson
• The Hatred of Poetry - Ben Lerner
• Bluets - Maggie Nelson
Articles:
• Fruits We'll Never Taste, Languages We'll Never Hear: The Need for Needless Complexity - Beth Ann Fennelly
• on seatbelts and sunsets - Hanif abdurraqib
• The Average Fourth Grader Is a Better Poet Than You (and Me Too) - Hannah Gamble
• Craft Capsule: On becoming a pop star, i mean, a poet - Chen Chen
Poems:
{ the thing about Poetry is that i tend to consume it by bits, instead of properly facing compilations of poems, therefore the amount of poetry books I've read it's ridiculously low, so i will name u 5 poems i'm currently rotating on my brain 🙂↕️)
• Glossary of terms - Franny Choi
• To the Sea - Anis Mojgani
• Statement of teaching philosophy - Keith Leonard
• Temporary Job - Minnie Bruce Pratt
• Ignatievo forest - Arseny Tarkovsky
As a final note i want to say that this made me realize the great amount of interviews i either read or hear and how a lot of my favorite language pieces just come from them. I truly recommend u to look up for written interviews and long chats on youtube from both, your favorite artists and artists that, even if u haven't properly approach, have caught your eye. I have discovered amazing people and ideas through this.
Listen to people.
Listen to the world outside yourself.
P.S. check for trigger warnings, please
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