Me Reading Stuff

After 6 days of not leaving the house, I'm coming at you loud and strong and without Vitamin D. Cuddle with your stuffed animals while listening to this one! LINKS:Buy "In the Moremarrow / En la masmedula" by Oliverio Girondo, Translated by Molly Weigel here at Action Books: http://actionbooks.org/oliverio-girondo-moremarrow/Check out information about The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner PhD here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dance-of-anger-harriet-lerner/1100553621Follow me on Twitter and Instagram @robyn_oneil

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.” -Patricia Highsmith SAME times a million.Today, as rusty water drips on my head, I present to you two separate readings about how the earliest occupants of the Americas discovered the wheel, but only as a children's toy. Kids first I guess. Stay strong my friends. I love you very much. Oh, and I heard your cries via the Podomatic "We Want More" button or whatever that is, so I'll be giving you an After Dark episode this week. I'm looking forward to it! I have so much I want to read you guys. Thank you so much for listening and caring. Let us proclaim the mystery of faith.LINKS:Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/Buy Vasko Popa's Complete Poems here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/vasko-popa-complete-poems-vasko-popa/1107427332?ean=9780856464331&st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Core+Shopping+Books_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP439&k_clickid=3x439Buy John D'A

Today, we celebrate the end of relationships. We shall find peace. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds in Tommy's backyard. We will quote RuPaul's self-love benediction and we will get on with our day even if we can't button our pants.LINKS:Buy Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost here: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/293600/a-field-guide-to-getting-lost-by-rebecca-solnit/9780143037248/More on Rebecca Solnit here: http://rebeccasolnit.netRuPaul on Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syy9KnJhE4gMore on my BFF E. Tyler Lindvall here: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200402/?read=tool_invacare_folding_shower_chairDominos: https://www.dominos.com/en/

The white noise of my dishwasher (baller) guides us through the beginning of what is sure to be a sweet day. I encourage 30 minutes of being good to yourself and I won't take no for an answer. I (for no reason) tell you something about Kurt Russell you might or might not know. And I ask who you loved in 2006. Also what's great about being alive? Tell me everything. I'm here. LINKS:Read Steve's full piece on Fatherhood for LitHub here: http://lithub.com/fatherhood-ruining-the-writing-career-saving-the-writing/Read an excerpt from Steve's book "Breaking into the Backcountry" here: http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Breaking-into-the-Backcountry,674653.aspxFollow Steve on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/The_Big_QuietWatch an Electric Literature animation based on one line from a Steve Edwards piece here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ9x1yu8F6U

“The Flood doesn’t come as a punishment, or a warning, or even as a lesson, but instead it seems to come because floods will sometimes come - leaving us with nothing but the opportunity to rebuild.” - John D’Agata, The Making of the American Essay“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” - Frederick DouglassLINKS:More on D’Agata and his Graywolf Press books: https://www.graywolfpress.org/author-list/john-dagataD’Agata on KCRW’s Bookworm: http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/john-dagata-the-making-of-the-american-essayAntony & The Johnsons-“Another World”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp23w0v-GB8

My laptop battery is down to 11% so I gotta get this thing published. I also need food. I also would love to hear you guys tell me about an artist/writer/filmmaker you hated until you loved. I'm looking outside as I type this, and the world looks hazy and dreamy and exactly like I prefer it. So out I go to walk in it. With my Yeezus praying skeleton shirt on and Kay Ryan's deep tracks in my head. I'm ready for anything. LINKS:Buy Kay Ryan books here: http://www.discoverbooks.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=0802142222&gclid=CjwKEAjw-_e7BRDs97mdpJzXwh0SJABSdUH0-Gtg3bcVQ0V9EEvLjeWYASBoKmXY0Ipgrx4u06phzhoC-GPw_wcBand here: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-06181-9/Listen to Watching the Throne here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/watching-throne-lyrical-analysis/id1023488671?mt=2My favorite Kanye West song "New Slaves" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyOL-f_UO5k

The 4th of July seemed like a time to celebrate American sports, so I give you the weird words of Metta World Peace and some devastating ones from Doc Rivers. Thanks again to Pasha Malla and Jeff Parker for this book. It never fails to amuse/excite/move me. I gotta get back to the elbow macaroni and murder. Shoutout to all the pasta though. LINKS:Buy Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion here: http://www.featherproof.com/catalog/erratic-fire-erratic-passionAn excerpt from the book here: http://www.featherproof.com/excerpt-erratic-fireBuy Longing for the Bomb here: http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/12408.htmlMore about Lindsey A. Freeman here: http://www.lindseyfreeman.netAnd follow Lindsey on twitter @sociologybomb

"Promise me you're not here to sew discord in the fields of my peace." - Oprah on Twitter last night. LINKS:Buy Robert Bly's "The Winged Energy of Delight" here: http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/the-winged-energy-of-delight/robert-bly/9780060575861?gclid=Cj0KEQjwhtO7BRCtwuO9gfTH-fQBEiQAdJ8FY4MhSNa7nS00K6jLvFiFr_E2L8Q8P4L50njO8u4NmgEaAsbj8P8HAQMore about Tomas Tranströmer here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_TranströmerBuy Tranströmer's "The Great Enigma" here: http://www.lybrary.com/the-great-enigma-new-collected-poems-p-212123.html?gclid=Cj0KEQjwhtO7BRCtwuO9gfTH-fQBEiQAdJ8FY0rbW1qrGIYoQR_z9050EFbDap09M0x_9u755EcCn4YaAnPO8P8HAQSee the tweets of Oprah Winfrey here: https://twitter.com/Oprah?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorMore on #greenleaf here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenleaf_(TV_series)

Shower first, coffee later! Don't make that into a shirt. Worst phrase ever: "Happy wife; happy life." I hate that show "Everybody Loves Raymond" because it's the tv show version of that phrase. Anyway, today we read the intro to Lolita. Which makes me very uncomfortable even though these might be my favorite 4 paragraphs in the history of literature. Listen to find out more. It's all a big tangle of thorns really. LINKS:Buy Lolita here: https://www.loa.org/books/9-novels-1955-1962Buy the 8-week Mindfulness book here: https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Eight-Week-Finding-Peace-Frantic/dp/1609618955?ie=UTF8&adid=18JH0YN34F9SRSAMCXCY&camp=14573&creative=327641&creativeASIN=1609618955&linkCode=as1&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Frcm.amazon.com%2Fe%2Fcm%3Ft%3Dminfinpeainaf-20%26o%3D1%26p%3D8%26l%3Das1%26asins%3D1609618955%26ref%3Dtf_til%26fc1%3D000000%26IS2%3D1%26lt1%3D_blank%26m%3Damazon%26lc1%3D0000FF%26bc1%3D000000%26bg1%3DFFFFFF%26f%3Difr&ref_=as_li_tf_til&tag=minfinpeainaf-20Free Mind

On ME READING STUFF, I've read you Whitman, e.e. cummings, Rilke, Gertrude Stein and so many more. And yeah.....now I'm reading you Heidi Montag. Haters gonna hate. "Hoppin' out the Maserati, all I see is paparazzi snapping pictures for the front cover of a magazine. So I pose in everything I wear, love to make the people stare. Always center of attention lookin' so bootylicious." LINKS:Download Heidi's album Superficial here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/superficial/id348940801Watch the official video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDN6Z60iccQCharlie talking to Spencer about crystals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxVmuJTNnqcMy favorite crystal shop here in LA: http://spellboundsky.com

156 episodes and counting! Twice a week (sometimes more) for exactly a year now, I have shared my loves and hates with you. I've shared the poems, letters and various other literary excerpts that make my brain and heart weak with awe. And you've been very kind to me every step of the way. I love you all for caring. And I can not thank you enough for your support. But all of this truly goes out to the poets of the world. Without you all, humanity is a disgrace. LINKS:Buy The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens here: http://www.lybrary.com/the-collected-poems-of-wallace-stevens-p-592194.html?gclid=CjwKEAjwqJ67BRCzzJ7Hy-LYlFYSJABwp9PGDblZOF3hKBxsCvtwFN53nFhZFEbZdTacW2o0zA14XRoCKLHw_wcBMe: http://robynoneil.comhttps://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilhttps://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Someone called me loud the other day. I'm trying to be quieter. I promise I'll get back to that Heidi Montag song. And John D'Agata. But for now, I give you Lucille Clifton. xo, RobynLINKS:Buy "Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000" through BOA Editions: https://www.boaeditions.org/collections/lucille-cliftonMore on Lucille here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_CliftonDonate to The Trevor Project here: http://www.thetrevorproject.orgDon't Be Cruel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd7dCbEfTs4My Prerogative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cDLZqe735kToo Close for Comfort Rainbow Wall: https://cinemastarlets.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/41.jpg

"But of all sadness this was sad..." LINKS: Even a few dollars helps: https://www.gofundme.com/pulsevictimsfundBrady Campaign: http://www.bradycampaign.orgThe Coalition to Stop Gun Violence: http://csgv.orgBuy the book that contains this Stephen Crane poem here: http://www.discoverbooks.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=1598530933&gclid=Cj0KEQjws_m6BRCv37WbtNmJs-IBEiQAWKKt0HUXOz67UhnCiyHrzMMQXapB6qofVx97SHy7CIfIvEkaAqE_8P8HAQ

In my first time ever reading you Emily Dickinson, I birth the new idiot term “pencil letter.” I praise so much today, even as the emotional fog makes happiness nearly impossible. I praise John D’Agata number one, I praise Emily, I praise Bookworm on KCRW, I praise Graywolf Press, I praise New Directions, I praise charged collisions, I praise all of you who join me every week, I praise swollen moons, and I praise even my worries. They are what they are. Buy John D’Agata’s The Making of the American Essay here:https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/making-american-essayMore on John D’Agata here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/author-list/john-dagataAnd John D'Agata on KCRW's Bookworm here (A MUST LISTEN!): http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/john-dagata-the-making-of-the-american-essay

"It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." - William Carlos Williams LINKS:Buy this book HERE: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/collected-poems-of-william-carlos-williams-1909-1939-william-carlos-williams/1100873871/2694169999268?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Marketplace+Shopping+greatbookprices_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP24010&k_clickid=3x24010http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45498Learn more about Paul Pfeiffer here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pfeiffer_(artist)Paul Pfeiffer - Fragment of a Crucifixion (after Francis Bacon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu12tN8AJdU

I wonder what Oliver Sacks would have said being called "pizza face with extra pepperoni" caused me, neu′ro·log′i·cal·ly speaking. LINKS:Buy Daily Rituals here: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/198763/daily-rituals/Check Oliver Sacks: https://2e0a24317f4a9294563f-26c3b154822345d9dde0204930c49e9c.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/4856736_oliver-sacks-on-storytelling-the-curious_tbe2a2462.jpg

Liquids in heels. LINKS:Daphne Gottlieb: http://www.daphnegottlieb.comBuy Why Things Burn here: http://www.powells.com/book/why-things-burn-9781887128650Essay about editing the letters of Aileen Wuornos: http://www.thebigclickmag.com/xxxxxxx/

"I was thinking of the greatness of what was human, and found myself in the divine." -Jiménez Things loved: clear nostrils, libraries and blankets. Things hated: sticky stuff on tables and terracotta. Things loved: you and this plant. LINKS:Buy the Robert Bly translations book here: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-winged-energy-of-delight-selected-translations_henry-david-thoreau/548450/?gclid=CjwKEAjw1Iq6BRDY_tK-9OjdmBESJABlzoY77BrVfmRpsXZHvlmgBHpOL5gijgsc1mxc6w3cZBTULBoCD8fw_wcB#isbn=0060575824&pcrid=70112866032&pkw=&pmt=&plcMore on Jiménez here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/juan-ramon-jimaenezThe Beverly Hills Public Library: https://julieamarxhausen.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/happy-old-people.jpg

Today, before reading you Ghalib, I went to the DMV and encountered a 91-year-old woman and a young woman who does not envy living a long life. I was quiet. My apps have been deleted from my phone for almost a month. I am wearing a new shirt. I have two new shirts. I will have them for a long time. Unless I die earlier than expected, which is totally possible and also not horrible. I do tend to get places early. LINKS:By Robert Bly's The Winged Energy of Delight here: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-winged-energy-of-delight-selected-translations_henry-david-thoreau/548450/?gclid=CjwKEAjw1Iq6BRDY_tK-9OjdmBESJABlzoY77BrVfmRpsXZHvlmgBHpOL5gijgsc1mxc6w3cZBTULBoCD8fw_wcB#isbn=0060575824&pcrid=70112866032&pkw=&pmt=&plc=More on Ghalib here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghalib

"There are blows in life so violent....Don't ask me!" - César_VallejoThanks for listening to me talk about croissant flakes adhering to my dewy face. LINKS: Buy Robert Bly's "The Winged Energy of Delight" here: https://www.harpercollins.com/search-results/?search-term=robert+bly+More on César Vallejo here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/César_Vallejo