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in which Mary and i crap on sonnets, gush about bookmaking, and trade nostalgia for places we've never been...

twitter: @_girlflame
blog: https://maryadellecom.wordpress.com
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other things referenced:
Nox by Anne Carson - http://www.ndbooks.com/book/nox
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/07/12/the-unfolding

"I Dreamed a Dream" sung by Anne Hathaway - https://vimeo.com/57708415

the color of oxblood - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxblood

Brenda Shaughnessy - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/brenda-shaughnessy

Carrie Murphy - http://www.carrie-murphy.com/

"I Am The King Of My Own Life" by Carrie Murphy - https://ilkjournal.com/journal/issue-ten/carrie-murphy/

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_Water_for_Chocolate

Beloved by Toni Morrison - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(novel)

Eddie Izzard Dress to Kill - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeRX2mdpZi8&noredirect=1

Calvin Trillin’s New Yorker poem - www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04…y-calvin-trillin

and responses to it - blog.angryasianman.com/2016/04/write…n-out-of.html

blog.angryasianman.com/2016/04/have-…oems-yet.html

smithsonianapa.org/now/run-ways-insult-asians-yet/

the motherload - aaww.org/in-the-room-calvin-trillin/