WoRkS i LoVe

  • Orlando by Virginia Woolf
  • Float by Anne Carson
  • Antipoems: How to Look Better and Feel Great by Nicanor Parra
  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • Källan by Walter Ljungquist
  • Angels in America #1: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
  • Angels in America #2: Perestroika by Tony Kushner
  • Vårt behov av tröst är omättligt by Stig Dagerman
  • Les Enfants terribles by Jean Cocteau
  • Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
  • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
  • Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  • The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
  • Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
  • Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
  • A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
  • A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
  • Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva

aUtHoRs I lOvE

 
Stig Dagerman       Anne Carson

 
Virginia Woolf        Ursula K. Le Guin


Nicanor Parra


Ntozake Shange



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Last updated on 16/11/2024.

ReAdInG LoG

2024

  • Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
  • Straff by Ann-Helén Laestadius
  • Anders Petersens mörkrum by Tommy Arvidson
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • Carrie by Stephen King
  • On Photography by Susan Sontag
  • Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva
  • No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
  • Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems by Warsan Shire

2023

  • Nattens lekar by Stig Dagerman
  • True Stories by Sophie Calle
  • A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
  • 99 Poems to Cure Whatever's Wrong With You or Create The Problem's You Need by Sam Pink
  • Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
  • Room to Dream by David Lynch & Kristine McKenna
  • Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
  • Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham
  • Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
  • Oliver Reed by Hannah Regel
  • Underjorden by Malte Persson
  • Ekphrasis and the Other by W.J. Thomas Mitchell
  • Doktor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg
  • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf




Ecka’s Quotes ↻


"WHAT DOES AN OLD MAN GAIN BY EXERCISING

what will he gain by talking on the phone
what will he gain by going after fame, tell me
what does he gain by looking in the mirror

Nothing
each time he just sinks deeper in the mud

It’s already three or four in the morning
why doesn’t he try to go to sleep
but no--he won’t stop doing exercise
won’t stop with his famous long-distance calls
won’t stop with Bach
with Beethoven
with Tchaikovsky
won’t stop with the long looks in the mirror
won’t stop with the ridiculous obsession about continuing to breathe

pitiful--it would be better if he turned out the light

Ridiculous old man his mother says to him
you and your father are exactly alike
he didn’t want to die either
may God grant you the strength to drive a car
may God grant you the strength to talk on the phone
may God grant you the strength to breathe
may God grant you the strength to bury your mother

You fell asleep, you ridiculous old man!
but the poor wretch does not intend to sleep
Let’s not confuse crying with sleeping"— Nicanor Parra

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