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Sarah’s 2025 Year in Books
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Sarah J. Sloat’s Followers (369)
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Sarah J. Sloat
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Today I recall being in Philadelphia at the start of the year while my mother was fading away and how harrowing it was. At the start I hoped so much that she’d make it but as she continued deteriorating I wondered what life waited for her if she recovered at all and needed to be discharged. How much she would suffer in an old-age home, and what arrangements and resources we’d need if we wanted to
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Hotel Almighty
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In the Voice of a Minor Saint
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2009
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Excuse me while I wring this long swim out of my hair
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2011
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Homebodies
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The Dirty Napkin, Volume 1.2, Spring 2008
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2008
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Classic Crimes
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Inksuite
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The Dirty Napkin (Volume 2.1, Winter 2009)
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Heiress to a Small Ruin
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Sugar House Review #13: Spring/Summer '16
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Sarah’s Recent Updates
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"This book explores the “freeze” response—the reason so many women find themselves unable to fight back in cases of sexual assault. It builds on that theme and looks at this response in other contexts, but what I found most fascinating was when the au"
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It's about time I read this book and told you how great it is! But seriously. This is my second book of visual poetry from the wonderful Sarabande Books. It's erasure/collage poetry sourced from William Roughead's Classic Crimes. Roughead is consider ...more |
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jeremy's review
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By the Rivers of Babylon (The Margellos World Republic of Letters):
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aware that the rain had stopped, raindrops forming part of the window with no new drops falling, the urine in the catheter felt as if it didn't belong to him, it merely passed through him, much as memories and ideas were passing through him, the r" Read more of this review » |
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"Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize
Longlisted for the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize [tied for my absolute top fiction book of 2025 & longlisted for another prize(s)(& hopefully many more!) so rereading with the audiobook this round, as reread the other " Read more of this review » |
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“I might walk vast expanses
of earth and always be beginning
and I love beginning
or could learn
to love it.”
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of earth and always be beginning
and I love beginning
or could learn
to love it.”
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“God have pity on the smell of gasoline
which finds its way like an arm
through a car window,
more human than kerosene,
more unctuous, more manly.”
― In the Voice of a Minor Saint
which finds its way like an arm
through a car window,
more human than kerosene,
more unctuous, more manly.”
― In the Voice of a Minor Saint
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“The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.”
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“For a moment the radio wavered between stations
and I was so busy
making myself marvelous.”
― In the Voice of a Minor Saint
and I was so busy
making myself marvelous.”
― In the Voice of a Minor Saint
“God have pity on the smell of gasoline
which finds its way like an arm
through a car window,
more human than kerosene,
more unctuous, more manly.”
― In the Voice of a Minor Saint
which finds its way like an arm
through a car window,
more human than kerosene,
more unctuous, more manly.”
― In the Voice of a Minor Saint
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Helle
Jan 13, 2016 02:05PM
Thanks for the friends request, Sarah. Looking forward to sharing books with you.
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OK, Sarah, I've got my Moby pic up and ready for sail come late October (note look of fear and loathing).
So far she's been clever enough to stay away from it. It is a bane of a word. It kills entire sentences.I've been loving your selections for the PotD, btw.
Loved your poem "from train 21," posted on your blog, Sarah. The seemingly contradictory tone / pace of headlong rush and reflection is quite effective.It also makes me think of Pound's "In a Station of the Meto" -- The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet black bough.
Salut S! Good to see you here and be GR buds!-shanti *t
Just wanted to stop in and wish you the best of the holiday season! Merry Christmas!-NoranHammond,IN :)
Hi Brooklyn,I recommend "The Bell" above all. Thanks for asking. I would like to read it again. I also loved "The Sea, The Sea." "A Word Child" would be third in line.... maybe tied with "The Sacred and Profane Love Machine."
sarah
love the addition of the stephen wright quote: he's some kind of low-key genius, no?
