22-28 Sept 24 QOTW

Image description: Erase the Patriarchy, an anthology of erasure poetry edited by Isobel O’Hare. Black cover with ripped flowers.

I just wanted to share this wonderful book with you, dear readers. You can pick it up from Microcosm.

Sunday

We are built on stories. Whether or not those stories are true. And whether a story needs to have occurred to be seen as the truth.

rob mclennan

As quoted in

rob mclennan

’s Substack post, The truth about sasquatches , a short story (that originally appeared online at Whiskey Tit,

Monday

Well the problem is this world. The solution must be underworlds, otherworlds, antiworlds, paraworlds and afterworlds  (which may be foreworlds). Luckily there’s such a preponderance of artists, poets, activists, and dreamers—alive, not-yet-conceived, and  posthumous– working in anachronistic confluence, fed by so many streams of speculation and inheritance, to manifest a multiverse. For my part, I am a devout Decadent, so I firmly believe in anachronism, inversion, reversals, paradox, metaphor, error, hyperdiction, ornament, odes, Frank Ocean, the Sublime, immodesty, immoderateness, and going all the way.  My aim is to exhaust my star.

Joyelle McSweeney, Between the Covers with David Naimon

Tuesday

I have come to study calm.

Laurie Koensgen in flo. literary magazine, issue 06, Solstice. I had the pleasure of attending the launch on September 5.

Wednesday

By what fire do you scream your name.

Chris Bridgen in in flo. literary magazine, issue 06, Solstice.

Thursday

Fifty years ago this September, Boris Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago came out here in English. He couldn’t publish it in his own country.

It was my birthday present that October—I was twenty-eight. It bowled me over. The Cold War muddied our thinking in the fifties, and I didn’t really understand the complex political stance of the book—but it’s a book you understand emotionally: it is fiercely intelligent, but it must be understood with the heart.

On Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago (First written for the National Public Radio segment You Must Read This, May 2008.) by Ursula K. Le Guinn

Thanks to Cindy Deachman, one of my dear friends and Substack subscriber for being the first to send me a quote for the quotes of the week feature!  I highly recommend Cindy’s newsletter, Matter.

Friday

The thing I learned, folks- this is absolutely key- it's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.

Chris Stevens, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House episode, 1992

Saturday

'Nature’s indomitable spirit is my muse. I find solace and amusement watching weeds return with a vengeance after some grinch tried to kill them off. Nothing delights me more than rebellion. Rebellion represents hope.

Amber Fossey (aka Zeppelinmoon), The Zeppelinmoon Trilogy from the amazing Pound Project.

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