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Tag: Poetry

Retake: Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass, Lana del Rey

Notice it’s another year where spring is over and summer has a way of making an entrance. And here I am, on my bed, listening to Lana Del Rey when I should be rereading Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. I say “should” not because the poems require discipline or rigor, but because they seem — read more

May 26, 2025
On the Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

First, I feel compelled to admit—though not confess, because that would imply atonement I’m not yet ready to enact—that I have been struggling to read. Not just to read as one opens a book and follows its trail, but to remain within that realm long enough for thought to deepen and echo. This is not — read more

May 17, 2025
Retake: Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur

Perhaps the most honest way to begin is with a disclaimer: I am not an authority on poetry. I make no claims to be one—not in any formal, spiritual, or social media–verified sense. And yet, with a bachelor’s degree in literature and a master’s in creative writing, I’ve accumulated what one might call situational fluency. — read more

May 13, 2025
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias appears, at first, to be a straightforward meditation on the impermanence of power—a traveler recounts the ruins of a once-great king’s statue, now crumbling in the desert, a relic of forgotten grandeur. But the poem resists simplicity. Its meaning shifts subtly depending on the reader’s tone, the listener’s perspective, and the — read more

Mar 19, 2025