Showing posts with label Graywolf Press. Show all posts
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"...Dorus et al. have noticed that twenty-eight of seventy-six gene variations connected to schizophrenia are actually preferred. One potential explanation suggests that the evolutionary development of speech, language, and creativity, while bestowing benevolent gifts, has "dragged" along less desirable genetic tendencies with it; from this perspective, schizophrenia is simply the price humanity pays for the ability to write heartrending operas and earthshaking speeches." 

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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang

"Have you listened to the LIGO recordings? I play them again and again. The universe! Enormous duration punctuated occasionally -- only a few times so far in my tenure here -- by what they call a chirp, a chirrup, a transient signal that rises to middle C and lasts only a fraction of a second easy to miss. Yes, you are easy to miss."

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Human Hours by Catherine Barnett

"Summer will come next. Summer will come and the waves will be huge, the kind of waves that feel like a challenge. If you're brave, you'll step out of the bright-hot day and into the foaming roil of the water, moving toward where the waves break and might break you. If you're brave, you'll turn your body over to this water that is practically an animal, and so much larger than yourself."
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Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado


5 ONCE THERE WAS LIGHT
 Once, in my early thirties, I saw that I was a speck of light in the great river of light that undulates through time. I was floating with the whole human family. We were all colors—those who are living now, those who have died, those who are not yet born. For a few moments I floated, completely calm, and I no longer hated having to exist.
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Having It Out with Melancholy by Jane Kenyon

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