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>>8194897
Mate, if you have to shitpost at least do it in an interesting way.

with all due respect, she lost her place when she succumbed to the obsolescent replication (cancer) of capitalism. the "cursed child" indeed...

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>tfw the sorting hat put me in Hufflepuff
Why even live

a lot of his stuff was hit or miss for me, but overall I like him. this is one of my all time favorite poems:

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

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>>8194753
Good for what he did, bad for those who did what he did after he did it. His early poetry, the stuff he wrote while still at Harvard, is interesting. That's cummings: "interesting". Maybe not great, sometimes good. Interesting nonetheless

Buffalo Bill ’s
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus

he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blue-eyed boy
Mister Death

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pls help

>>8193955
I'm my own favorite poet, t b h.

pushkin

because eugene onegin is a masterpiece

>>8193955
Yeats.

His words make my head buzz.

Thriftbooks.com

>>8192971
Seconded.

www.amazon.com

oh are there not any sites to download books from? shame.

libgen you narc

Hello clone of me. I use books and libgen. Sometimes it's hard to find books in non PDF format, but no matter what I would recommend calibr for easy conversions. It even has an add to device option to it's one or two clicks to auto convert and add a book from comp to Kindle.

>>8192865
Piratebay or audible.

>>8192865
Librivox, you bourgeoise swine.

>>8192908
>bourgeoise swine
If I was bourgeoise, why would I be stealing every xmen comic since 1975 to read on my tablet?

>>8192760
Dragontails are an aphrodisiac, thus dragon populations have been on a steep decline due to poaching.

>>>/v/

>>8193106
were you here 2 years ago

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>>8192546
From a /lit/ and /biz/ perspective?

You want something that will be related to your book of course! Something either deep or literal maybe.

You ALSO want something that will help it stick out and sell. Since Publishers won't pick up authors that don't sell.

That's pretty much it.

Here's an irrelevant /lit/ cap.

It is important, but definitely not as important as album covers. Basically every modern music release has a square image tied to it, an album cover that tries to depict its content in the most favorable way in order to appeal to consumers.

It's interesting that this attachment to the cover image is so much less important in literature, proven by the fact many books have multiple covers depending on the edition, publisher, translation etc.

Maybe it's harder to convey words into an image? Or maybe the literary scene is not as susceptible to marketing strategies? Or maybe it's because book stores and libraries present their books with their spine, while record stores invite people to flick trough everything?

They are important enough to exist, the title more so.

jesuschristgetalifewhofuckingcares

I read twenty pages of a novel a day, and an issue of a comic. I find if I read too much in one day I get burned out and then stop, since I stick to this schedule consistently I inevitably read more.

>>8192419
okayiwilljustkiddingiwont

Haven't read him, OP. What should I read by him?

>>8192128
Depends, Sinclair's subjects may seem bland but its the remarkable language and writing that you are there for.
For poetry/travel-log i'd go with the John Clare book and for London fans i'd go with That Rose-Red Empire or Ghost Milk

>>8192013
Comfy looking room

What was the reference I haven't read the book.

>>8191704
Don't remember exactly. I'm at work and don't have the book on me.

Can't think of a more repugnant demographic than the trust fund hipster chink.

Is there even a (decent) complete collection of his writings in one book?

>>8191627
>translation of one of the most well-structured Latin authors to exist
>in English

>>8192530

I dropped my Latin classes after like 4 months because I was a 12 year old pleb. Sorry m8.

you might just not like reading

>>8191317
Go watch anime and play 'vidya' instead, friend.

>>>/r9k/

>>8191317
Yeah man get the fuck of this board

>>8190746
Your pic.

sane, good bone structure

>>8190746
Nonreciprocal