ariel *ੈ✩‧₊˚’s Reviews > The Crying Book > Status Update

“i say book. i mean poem. i mean the way landscape suddenly reveals itself in layers, a vertical light shining it’s connective beam from one moment to the next. an entry into—an awareness of—a dimension always present. not always seen. i think if i can keep myself alive to it, it will keep me from going under.”

“when i am not in despair i can barely even describe it. it is a trap door in my life. a bridge to nowhere. it is only a metaphor, a line. but one I send my love across.”

“sometimes i am afraid that as i am listening to peoples stories of tears-and therefore, frequently, of suffering-i will make the mistake of these priests, that i will fail to hear what people most want to be known, that i will only make them cry again.”

“i understand she is crying because she is witnessing a difficult and maybe sorrowful event. i understand i am not crying because i am the event.”

“i mistook myself for a researcher, when i am a weeping subject.”

“i fear that to write so much about crying will tempt a universal law of irony to invite tragedy into my life”

“i speak to lisa and lisa speaks of parallel crying, the crying that comes alongside art but not precisely from it, plot does not jerk the tears from you; some other force corresponds. this pleases me, as i have always preferred parallel lines to perpendicular ones.”