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I watched Midnight in Paris today. It was delightful to see Dali and Stein and Hemingway and Picasso on the screen. Paris seemed a little antiseptic, a little too clean, but still, it was beautiful, and it made me want to go back. It also made me sad, and this made me want a poem tonight. I opened my anthology, and this is where I landed: Joao Cabral de Melo Neto is speaking of what it means to...
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Salvage the Bones
   3.84 avg rating — 2,299 ratings
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2011
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7 editions
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Where the Line Bleeds
3.59 avg rating — 54 ratings
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published
2006
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5 editions
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“I will not let him see until none of us have any choices about what can be seen, what can be avoided, what is blind, and what will turn us to stone.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
“it is the way that all girls who only know one boy move. Centered as if the love that boy feels for them anchors them deep as a tree's roots, holds them still as the oaks, which don't uproot in hurricane wind. Love as certainty.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
“the air that had been still before swoops and tunnels through the clearing, raising dust, making the boys close their eyes. Maybe Daddy is right; maybe Katrina is coming for us.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
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Topics Mentioning This Author
| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
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| Literary Fiction ...: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominees | 24 | 43 | Aug 25, 2009 07:39pm | |
| Constant Reader: 2010 Personal Reading List | 113 | 239 | Aug 23, 2010 08:47am | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Coming Attractions - 2011 | 55 | 105 | Dec 27, 2011 10:34pm | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Jesmyn Ward and Nikki Finney Win National Book Awards | 5 | 37 | Jan 03, 2012 08:47am | |
| Constant Reader: Book fairs -- endangered or extinct? | 15 | 41 | Jan 28, 2012 07:51pm | |
| Literary Fiction ...: McFadden's "Gathering of Waters" reviewed by Jesmyn Ward in NYT | 2 | 28 | Feb 12, 2012 01:27pm | |
| "The BB's": April 2012 Bitches' Choice Nominations | 16 | 17 | Mar 02, 2012 04:37am | |
| Literary Fiction ...: * Read And Recommended | 211 | 334 | Apr 04, 2012 02:42pm | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Discussion: Salvage The Bones | 187 | 121 | Apr 24, 2012 12:53pm |
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