- a story when we were kids || fairytales and dreaming as escapism

give me a world you have taken the world i was tuesday

Beloved, Realm of the Elderlings / Cassandra of Troy

anne carson by christopher sherman for interview magazine

“the ending is always the same”

war of the foxes - richard silken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology

Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Anne Carson, H of H Playbook

[ID: A scan of a few sentences from the aforementioned book, where they’re on a scrap of paper in a collage. They read, “Brief pause. I’m walking backward into my own myth. I was trying to walk out.” The last sentence is crossed out in pencil. End of description.]

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

I AM WORKING ON BEING KINDER WHEN I AM HURT.

the-poetic-boy / paige lewis / safia elhillo / nutnoce / jane rule / carole maso / anne carson, edit by heavensghost

the-poetic-boy / paige lewis, from space struck / safia elhillo, from “haitham”, home is not a country / jane rule, work not found / carole maso, from the art lover / anne carson, from grief lessons: four plays by euripedes, edit by heavensghost

“Look! he would prick his thumb and press out ocher-colored drops that sizzled when they hit the plate- Volcano blood! Claimed the temperature of his body was a continuous 130 degrees and let people touch his skin for 75 cents”

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red, XVIII. She

Anne Carson, An Oresteia

danaë – gustav klimt / if not, winter – sappho, trans. anne carson / danaë – egon schiele

i don’t know who i am, so how could you?

1. anne carson // 2. the wonder years // 3. kaye donachie // 4. phoebe bridgers // 5. shane mccrae // 6. @anjalimehta // 7. ursula k. le guin // 8. margret atwood // 9. nikos kazantzakis // 10. philip geiger // 11. bell hooks // 12. @julykings // 13. sylvia plath

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Three favorite descriptions of female poets in childhood -

Emma Brockes on Anne Carson: “When Carson was a child she read a book called Lives of the Saints and loved it so much that she tried to eat the pages. It sounds like an apocryphal story, but yes, she says, ‘I did do that.’”

Elizabeth L. Cary on Christina Rossetti: “…‘not precocious,’ somewhat irritable, worshipping animals, reading little and only what hit her fancy, but knowing Keats at nine…”

Aurelia Plath on Sylvia Plath: “Indeed, her mother describes the specific moment when Sylvia turned her face to the wall, or more literally hid under a blanket to block out the news of her father’s death. It was early in the morning and Sylvia was reading in bed. Aurelia Plath explains, ‘She looked at me sternly for a moment, then said woodenly, “I’ll never speak to God again!”’“