serpenstiarae:

“So I ate myself, / bite by bite, / and the tears washed me, / wave after cowardly wave,”

— Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems; “The Sickness Unto Death”

(Source: seaymphea, via monstreux)

smakkabagms:

Essays:
1. Helene Cixous - Laugh of Medusa 
2. Anne Carson - Evil and Suffering in Modern Poetry 
3. Kathy Acker - Myth of Romantic Suffering
4. Virginia Woolf - On Not Knowing Greek 
5. Adrienne Rich - Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
       - Adrienne Rich - Three Other Essays 
6. Alice Walker - Looking for Zora 
7. Anna Klobucka - Helene Cixous & Clarice Lispector
8. Joan Didion - On Self-Respect
9. Margaret Atwood - Am I a Bad Feminist? 
10. Jeffrey Meyers - The Savage Experiment: Arthur Rimbaud
11. Jennifer Nash - Practicing Love 
12. Paul J. M. van Tongeren - “A Splendid Failure” Nietzche Suffering
13. Albert Henrichs -  Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: Dionysus 

Short Stories: 
1. Clarice Lispector - Love 
2. Anne Carson - 1 = 1
3. Margaret Atwood - Stone Mattress
4. Amy Bloom - Silver Water
5. Gunnhild Øyehaug - Same Time, Another Planet 
6. Anne Carson - Back the Way you Went 
7. Tatyana Tolstaya - Unnecessary Things
8.  Kirstin Valdez Quade - Christina the Astonishing (1150-1224)
9.  Clarice Lispector - One Day Less

Novels:
1. Helene Cixous - Stigmata 
2. Helene Cixous - Ex-Cities 
3. Helene Cixous - Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (my favorite)
4. Jean Genet - A Thief’s Journal (another link)
5. Judith Butler - Bodies that Matter
6. Clarice Lispector -  AGUA VIVA  (my favorite)

Happy Holidays, friends. I hope you enjoy. - Love, E