books in a skirt, books in the shower.
i.
at the library. clack clack clack in heels. i never wear heels. for some reason, my sweater smells like cinnamon.
wickedary conjured by mary daly in cahoots with jane caputi
...the arguments over pre-history and the "snoolish view" which builds and accepts archetypes as a construction to piece recurring thoughts together...is, well, provocative. so often when i'm reading things that seem to oppose each other and fight and squabble, with blood even, it feels. as if it's really a miscommunication. that it can be six forms of one thing, and just--different lenses to attempt grasping such things. ie, religions vs science, archetypes vs the rich, re-membered history of matriarchal societies...the idea of piecing together, trying to remember something vital, crucial, lost. maybe that makes me weak, but i see it as more a long scattered history of mess and shards and trying to fit a language or a physical mode of expression to this remembered feeling. though, i can see how, as daly points out, labeling any of women's grasps to re-member as merely "mysterious" or part of a "archetype" may enable and has enabled some to oversimplify and distance the actual vitality of what it means to try to "be" a woman. in other words, it can be dismissive. i can see how that can be insulting for someone who sees their historical power as greater than what can be "worded" as such. i don't know yet where i am in all of this, though. i am sorry, to all parts then. hm. my mind's still pooling through and even flailing; i'm new to any of this. i'm new.
modern feminisms: political, literary, cultural edited and introduced by maggie humm
feminist interpretations of mary daly edited by sarah lucia hoagland and marilyn faye...this one is very new, part of the re-reading the canon series. i'll be interested to read the mary wollstonecraft one as well.
the stars down to earth and other essays on the irrational in culture by theodor w adorno
the subcultures reader edited by ken gelder and sarah thornton
i started the mary daly wickedary last night; it's immensely intense and . well, wow. um. and it fueled a desire to scrape up laundry change enough to order a copy and send it right to julia. because. it seems like something if she hasn't read yet...it would fit well in her tufts and stuffed gaps. but that probably sounds pretentious of me. i'm sorry. just, just...
ii.
in the shower, reminding myself:
(i do this endlessly, readers sicks of my repetitive lists can skip it :)
lolita by vladimir nabokov
narcissus and goldmund by hermann hesse
personae by ezra pound
i apologize for the eyes in my head by yusef komunyakaa
absences by james tate
leaving another kingdom and the red coal by gerald stern
the favourite game by leonard cohen
bad behavior by mary gaitskill
women in their beds by gina berriault
the diary of hl mencken
live girls and city of boys by beth nugent
the complete poems of anne sexton
sabbath's theater and american pastoral by philip roth
fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury
the complete fairy tales and stories of hans christian andersen
a year in my life by kobayashi issa
i: six nonlectures by ee cummings
patti smith
lucille clifton
herbert huncke
four archetypes by carl gustav jung
transcripts of joan of arc's trial
that scary picture book of saints i had as a child
the gigantic gallery book of cindy sherman's work from the early to the later
two girls, fat and thin by mary gaitskill
much more my fingers slipt past
i.
at the library. clack clack clack in heels. i never wear heels. for some reason, my sweater smells like cinnamon.
wickedary conjured by mary daly in cahoots with jane caputi
...the arguments over pre-history and the "snoolish view" which builds and accepts archetypes as a construction to piece recurring thoughts together...is, well, provocative. so often when i'm reading things that seem to oppose each other and fight and squabble, with blood even, it feels. as if it's really a miscommunication. that it can be six forms of one thing, and just--different lenses to attempt grasping such things. ie, religions vs science, archetypes vs the rich, re-membered history of matriarchal societies...the idea of piecing together, trying to remember something vital, crucial, lost. maybe that makes me weak, but i see it as more a long scattered history of mess and shards and trying to fit a language or a physical mode of expression to this remembered feeling. though, i can see how, as daly points out, labeling any of women's grasps to re-member as merely "mysterious" or part of a "archetype" may enable and has enabled some to oversimplify and distance the actual vitality of what it means to try to "be" a woman. in other words, it can be dismissive. i can see how that can be insulting for someone who sees their historical power as greater than what can be "worded" as such. i don't know yet where i am in all of this, though. i am sorry, to all parts then. hm. my mind's still pooling through and even flailing; i'm new to any of this. i'm new.
modern feminisms: political, literary, cultural edited and introduced by maggie humm
feminist interpretations of mary daly edited by sarah lucia hoagland and marilyn faye...this one is very new, part of the re-reading the canon series. i'll be interested to read the mary wollstonecraft one as well.
the stars down to earth and other essays on the irrational in culture by theodor w adorno
the subcultures reader edited by ken gelder and sarah thornton
i started the mary daly wickedary last night; it's immensely intense and . well, wow. um. and it fueled a desire to scrape up laundry change enough to order a copy and send it right to julia. because. it seems like something if she hasn't read yet...it would fit well in her tufts and stuffed gaps. but that probably sounds pretentious of me. i'm sorry. just, just...
ii.
in the shower, reminding myself:
(i do this endlessly, readers sicks of my repetitive lists can skip it :)
lolita by vladimir nabokov
narcissus and goldmund by hermann hesse
personae by ezra pound
i apologize for the eyes in my head by yusef komunyakaa
absences by james tate
leaving another kingdom and the red coal by gerald stern
the favourite game by leonard cohen
bad behavior by mary gaitskill
women in their beds by gina berriault
the diary of hl mencken
live girls and city of boys by beth nugent
the complete poems of anne sexton
sabbath's theater and american pastoral by philip roth
fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury
the complete fairy tales and stories of hans christian andersen
a year in my life by kobayashi issa
i: six nonlectures by ee cummings
patti smith
lucille clifton
herbert huncke
four archetypes by carl gustav jung
transcripts of joan of arc's trial
that scary picture book of saints i had as a child
the gigantic gallery book of cindy sherman's work from the early to the later
two girls, fat and thin by mary gaitskill
much more my fingers slipt past