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	07/23 Layla is currently reading: Eros the Bittersweet (Paperback) by Anne Carson bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	02/10 Layla is currently reading: My Emily Dickinson (Paperback) by Susan Howe (Goodreads author!) bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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July 23
	Layla marked as to-read: Singularities (Wesleyan Poetry) by Susan Howe (Goodreads author!) bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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	Layla marked as to-read: The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art (Paperback) by Reginald Gibbons bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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	Layla added: Broken English: Poetry and Partiality (Paperback) by Heather McHugh	my rating:
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	Layla added: Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993 (Wesleyan Poetry) by Heather McHugh	my rating:
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	Layla added: Hope Against Hope: A Memoir (Paperback) by Nadezhda Mandelstam	my rating:
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	Layla added: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Paperback) by Wallace Stevens	my rating:
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	Layla gave to: East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Kathleen Hague, Michael Hague	my rating:
	Layla said: "This is one of my favorite books from childhood--important to have this version for the illustrations--and I read it again recently while thinking of Italo Calvino's take on compression and repetition in folktales. Also the object as a means to move ...more " add a comment
	Layla is currently reading: Eros the Bittersweet (Paperback) by Anne Carson bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	Layla marked as to-read: My Life (Paperback) by Lyn Hejinian bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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	Layla marked as to-read: The Wife: A Novel (Paperback) by Meg Wolitzer bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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"Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow."
— Margaret Atwood

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"You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself."
— Barry Hannah

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"Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority is what they have been whispering into their ears for ages."
— Charles Simic

1 person liked it

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