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Cloud PoetryYanyan’s DiaryThe daily goings-on of Yanyan Huang.2022-11-131h 23Cloud PoetryMonologues from Yanyan’s lifeShort memoirs and accounts of my days. Welcome to banality.2022-01-2121 minCloud PoetryBlahblahblah IISkimming Dan’s papers and NYT Magazine2021-12-081h 10Cloud PoetryNew YorkerArticles2021-12-0823 minCloud PoetryDiscriminating TasteHow class anxiety created the American food revolution. By S. Margot Finn2021-12-0808 minCloud PoetryThe Soul’s CodeExcerpts from The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman2021-12-082h 43Cloud PoetryThe Life around UsPoems by Denise Levertov2021-12-0811 minCloud PoetryNegotiating cultures and identitiesLife history issues, methods, and readings by John L. Caughey2021-12-081h 03Cloud PoetryThe Magnetic FieldsAndré Breton and Philippe Soupault’s exercise in automatic writing, 1920. Translated by Charlotte Mandell2021-12-0831 minCloud PoetryPowers of HorrorAn Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva, 19412021-12-0824 minCloud PoetryThe European Obsession with PorcelainA New Yorker article by Thessaly La Force, 20152021-12-0819 minCloud PoetryPoetry and Racial Justice and EqualityA selection of poems from the Poetry Foundation for Black History Month2021-12-0811 minCloud PoetryAudre LordePoems by Audre Lorde2021-12-0824 minCloud PoetryThe Stream and the SapphireSelected poems on religious themes by Denise Levertov2021-12-0827 minCloud PoetryThe BibleExcerpts from the Bible in no particular order2021-12-0807 minCloud PoetryThe Scent of TimeExcerpts from Byung-Chul Han’s The Scent of Time2021-12-0834 minCloud PoetryThe Expulsion of the OtherByyng-Chul Han’s analysis of our global everyday existence under the challenges of electronically induced hypercommunication.2021-12-0827 minCloud PoetryPoemsPoems in no particular order2021-12-081h 06Cloud PoetryDouble entry bookkeepingDouble-entry bookkeeping, in accounting, is a system of book keeping where every entry to an account requires a corresponding and opposite entry to a different account. The double-entry has two equal and corresponding sides known as debit and credit. Assets = Liabilities + Equity2021-12-0810 minCloud PoetrySix poems by Tristan TzaraWay, Approach, Volt, Approximate Man, Monsieur AA, Antiphilosopher, A poem in Yellow2021-12-0811 minCloud PoetryEloisa to AbelardAlexander Pope’s verse epistle, published in 1717, based on a well-known Mediaeval story.2021-12-0820 minCloud PoetryThe Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red ChamberCao Xuequn, 17602021-12-0814 minCloud PoetryAsian-American poetryA selection of Asian-American poetry2021-12-0818 minCloud PoetryPoems on Immigration and Immigrant lifeFrom Poetry Foundation2021-12-0828 minCloud PoetryThe Expulsion of the OtherThe Expulsion of the Other by Byung-Chul Han2021-12-0858 minCloud PoetryBach’s Letter of ResignationBach’s Letter requesting dismissal describing his desires as Kapemeister2021-12-0802 minCloud PoetryA Rascuache PrayerReflections on Juan Felipe Herrera by Luis Alberto Urrea2021-12-0803 minCloud PoetryLabyrinthsJorge Luis Borges’ collected short stories2021-12-0843 minCloud PoetryConsider the LobsterShort story by David Foster Wallace2021-12-0824 minCloud PoetryIn Defense of Fanny PriceFrom the Paris Review. By Tara Isabella Burton.2021-12-0811 minCloud PoetryChinese proverbsBits of Chinese proverbs and wisdom in Mandarin and English2021-12-0810 min
Cloud PoetryPoems of the MastersChina’s Classic Anthology of T’ang and Sung Dynasty Years, translated by Red Pine2021-12-0812 minCloud PoetryOne Hundred Poets, One poem eachA compilation of Classical Japanese poems dating to around 1230-40 and assembled by the renowned poet and scholar Fujiwara no Taika. In English and Japanese.2021-12-0829 minCloud PoetryThe Year of Blue Water by YanyiPoems from Yanyi’s The Year of Blue Water2021-12-0812 minCloud PoetryList of Sundial mottosBe as true to each other as this dial is to the sun.
Begone about Thy business.
Come along and grow old with me; the best is yet to be.
Hours fly, Flowers die. New days, New ways, Pass by. Love stays.
Hours fly, Flowers bloom and die. Old days, Old ways pass. Love stays.
I only tell of sunny hours.
I count only sunny hours.
Let others tell of storms and showers, I tell of sunny morning hours.
Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only count your sunny hours.
Life is but a shadow: the shadow of...2021-12-0819 minCloud PoetryJacobean poetryA selection of sacred English Jacobean poetry of the Reign of King James the First (1603-1625)2021-12-0848 minCloud PoetryFROG AND TOAD
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AFTER MONTHS IN SELF-QUARANTINETwo short stories by Jennie Egerdie, published in McSweeney’s2021-12-0812 minCloud PoetryCaste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel WilkersonExcerpts from “Caste: The origins of our discontents”, in which Wilkerson gives a masterful portrait of the hierarchical caste and racial ranking divisions operating invisibly throughout American society.2021-12-0850 minCloud PoetryChinese Poetry: An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres by Wai-Lim YipSpanning two thousand years—from the Book of Songs (circa 600 B.C.) to the chü form of the Yuan Dynasty (1260–1368)—these 150 poems cover all major genres that students of Chinese poetry must learn. Correcting more than a century of distortion of the classical Chinese by translators unconcerned with the intricacies and aesthetics of the Chinese language, these masterful translations by Wai-lim Yip, a noted and honored translator and scholar, allow English readers to enter more easily into the dynamic of the original poems.2021-12-081h 05Cloud PoetryLucretius’ The Nature of ThingsA follower of Epicurus, Lucretius believed the world to be composed of tiny atoms moving in a void and viewed life in terms of pleasure and pain, representing good and bad.2021-12-0818 minCloud PoetryThe Epicurus ReaderSelected writings and testimonies of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341–270 BC) who founded a school called “The Garden”. He taught that the root of all human neurosis is death denial and the tendency for human beings to assume that death will be horrific and painful, which he claimed causes unnecessary anxiety, selfish self-protective behaviors, and hypocrisy. According to Epicurus, death is the end of both the body and the soul and therefore should not be feared. Epicurus taught that although the gods exist, they have no involvement in human affairs. He taught that people should behave ethically not because the gods p...2021-12-081h 19Cloud PoetrySelected Poems of Edith WhartonSelected poems of Edith Wharton, the first female writer to win the Pulitzer Prize.2021-12-0820 minCloud PoetryThe Widow Ching - PirateShort stories from Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Widow Ching - Pirate”2021-12-0828 minCloud PoetryLes Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), Charles BaudelaireDealing with themes of decadence and eroticism, Les fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire’s volume of poems first published in 1857, was enormously influential in the symbolist and modernist literature movements. Read in French and English.2021-12-0808 minCloud PoetryYoshida Kenkō’s Essays in IdlenessKenkō was born in 1283 to a Kyoto family of hereditary Shinto priests. His times demanded adaptability to an often inconsistent and multi-layered world, and he was a man well suited to his times.2021-12-0838 minCloud PoetrySteven Millhauser short storiesShort stories from We Others2021-12-0844 minCloud PoetryLouis AragonA selection of poems by the French poet Louis Aragon: Avec André Breton, Paul Éluard, Philippe Soupault, il fut l’un des animateurs du dadaïsme parisien et du surréalisme.2021-12-0808 minCloud PoetryDeux Poèmes, Op. 34 (1898)La chanson bien douce
Paul Verlaine
Écoutez la chanson bien douce
Qui ne pleure que pour vous plaire.
Elle est discrète, elle est légère:
Un frisson d’eau sur de la mousse.
La voix vous fut connue (et chère?),
Mais à présent elle est voilée
Comme une veuve désolée,
Pourtant comme elle encore fière,
Et dans les longs plis de son voile
Qui palpite aux brises d'automne,
Cache et montre au cœur qui s'étonne
La vérité comme une étoile.
Elle dit, la voix reconnue,
Que la bonté c'est notre vie,
Que de la hain...2021-12-0802 minCloud PoetryCurzio MalaparteXi’an of Eight Rivers. China is made of earth, of sun-dried mud.
In this part of China everything is made from the earth:
the houses, the walls around cities, and villages,
the tombs scattered over the countryside.
Even the people.
There are hills below that appear to be piles of mud
set out to dry in the sun, naked,
without a single tree or bush.
They crowd around the landscape
like the coils of bulging intestines
tossed on the ground outside butchers' shops,
slowly unraveling.
Sometimes we fly so low that we almost touch them.
And then I notice th...2021-12-0819 minCloud PoetryEye Level: Jenny Xie poems“Funny, the way we come to understand a place by wanting to escape it”2021-12-0843 minCloud PoetryPrayers of the RosaryLatin creates a sense of sacred space and time to help focus on the sense of God’s otherness.2021-12-0808 minCloud PoetryJacob Boehme’s Signatura Rerum“The Signature of All Things” by Jacob Böhme, who suggests that God marked objects with a sign, a “signature” for their purpose: the concept that every object in the real world has some hidden meaning, and particularly how these signatures interact.2021-12-0839 minCloud PoetryLucretius’ De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)A first century BC didactic poem by Lucretius (99-55 BC) explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. Lucretius explores the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna ("chance"), and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities.2021-12-0836 minCloud PoetryRebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust: A History of WalkingExcerpts from Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust: A history of walking”, 20002021-12-0813 minCloud PoetrySacred Text ExcerptsBiblical, ancient, historical sacred texts from dead and living civilizations2021-12-081h 19Cloud PoetryThe Drowned WorldJG Ballard’s dystopian novel set in a waterlogged London2021-12-0830 minCloud PoetryA cup of sake beneath the cherry treesExcerpts from medieval Japanese author and Buddhist monk Yoshida Kenkō’s (1283-1352) Essays on Idleness, or Tsurezuregusa.2021-12-0819 minCloud PoetryBe drunk!Baudelaire’s lovely poem encouraging drunkenness2021-12-0806 minCloud PoetryExcerpts from How to DisappearNotes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency by Akiko Busch2021-12-0859 minCloud PoetryThe Art of the Stage Set, The Aesthetics of Atmospheres, Gernot BöhmeAtmosphere. A familiar yet extremely vague phenomenon The term atmosphere has its origin in the meteorological field and refers to the earth's envelope of air which carries the weather. It is only since the 18th century that it has been used metaphorically, for moods which are "in the air", for the emotional tinge of a space. Today this expression is commonly used in all European languages; it no longer seems artificial and is hardly even regarded as a metaphor. One speaks of the atmosphere of a conversation, a landscape, a house, the atmosphere of a festival, an evening, a season...2021-12-0831 minCloud PoetryPlay it as it LaysJoan Didion2021-11-2009 minCloud PoetryThe Most Beautiful job in the worldAn exposé on the violence that the fashion industry perpetuates on its workers, the Earth, the minds and self esteems of people around the world. “This challenging book lays bare the working conditions of the ‘most beautiful job in the world’ showing that exploitation isn’t confined to sweatshops abroad or sexual harassment or models, but exists at the very heart of the powerful symbolic and economic center of fashion.” By Giulia Mensitieri.2021-11-0607 minCloud PoetryPainting beyond ItselfThe Medium in the Post-medium Condition. Collection of essays, edited by Isabelle Graw and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, 20132021-10-2825 minCloud PoetryThe Shinnecock Indians: A Culture HistoryEdited by Gaynell Stone, Suffolk County Archaeological Association, 19832021-08-091h 39Cloud PoetryPractice for TVRambling thoughts2021-08-0518 minCloud PoetryNation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian NationsInterviews and essays compiled for the inauguration of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.2021-07-3023 minCloud PoetryTalented Mr. RipleyNovella by Patricia Highsmith2021-07-1447 min
Cloud PoetryItalian practiceTo improve my embarrassing Italian2021-07-1421 minCloud PoetryNative Peoples of North AmericaSusan Stebbins, University at Albany, 2013. Native peoples of North America is intended to be an introductory text about the native peoples presented from an anthropological perspective. As such, the text is organized around anthropological concepts such as language, kinship, marriage and family life, political and economic organization, food getting, spiritual and religious practices, and the arts. Prehistoric historic and contemporary information is presented. Each chapter begins with an example from the oral tradition that reflects the theme of the chapter.2021-07-121h 07Cloud PoetryBlahblahBlahblahblah
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· Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2021-07-1206 minCloud PoetryAncient ReligionsReligious beliefs and practices, which permeates all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners journeying from place to place peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths traveled with them. A collection of essays edited by Sarah Iles Johnston, Harvard University Press, 20072021-06-0155 minCloud PoetryItalian newsLa Nazionale, La Repubblica, etc2021-05-3030 minCloud PoetryDaily prayersIn Latin2021-05-2206 minCloud PoetryLa RepubblicaDaily news from Italy’s largest newspaper2021-05-2202 minCloud PoetryPeking StoryThe Last days of Old China, David Kidd, 19882021-05-1804 minCloud PoetryCrass StruggleGreed, glitz, and gluttony in a wanna-have world, RT Naylor, 20112021-05-1836 minCloud PoetryArt in Theory 1900-1990An anthology of art essays compiled by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, 19922021-05-1418 minCloud PoetryNotes on Atmosphere, Dora ZhangWhat difference does an atmosphere make to an environment, a situation, or a horizon of possible action?2021-05-1133 minCloud PoetryAstrology and Cosmology in Early ChinaUsing an enormous wealth of archaeological discoveries, inscriptions, linguistic evidence, religious rites, and historical sources, David W. Pankenier recovers ancient Chinese astronomical concepts and practices of paramount importance for our understanding of the formation of the Chinese civilization. 2013, Cambridge University Press2021-05-1140 minCloud PoetryLi Ch’ing-chao poemsTranslated by Kenneth Redroth and Ling Chung, 1979. Poems by Li Ch’ing-chao 1081-1141.2021-05-1124 minCloud PoetryBorn under SaturnThe Character and conduct of Artists: A documented history from Antiquity to the French Revolution, Rudolf and Margot Wittkower, 19632021-05-101h 00Cloud PoetryItalian Film in the Light of NeorealismEssays by Millicent Marcus, Princeton University Press, 19862021-05-1024 minCloud PoetryThe Shape of TimeGeorge Kubler, 19622021-05-0424 minCloud PoetryCrashed: How a decade of financial crises changed the worldAdam Tooze2021-04-3010 minCloud PoetryDante The Divine ComedyVol I: Inferno2021-04-281h 16Cloud PoetryFrench PoemsSaint-John Perse 1887-19752021-04-261h 06Cloud PoetryConsuming LifeZygmunt Bauman examines the impact of consumerist attitudes and patterns of conduct on various apparently unconnected aspects of social life - politics and democracy, social divisions and stratification, communities and partnerships, identity building, the production and use of knowledge, and value preferences.2021-04-2619 minCloud PoetryThe Dream and the UnderworldJames Hillman relates our dreaming life to the myths of the Underworld - the dark side of the soul, its images and shadows - and to the gods and figures of death.2021-04-2627 min
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· Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2021-03-1008 minCloud PoetryBlahblahBlahblah2021-03-0805 minCloud PoetryThe Power of ImagesStudies in the History and Theory of Response by David Freedberg, The University of Chicago Press, 19892021-03-082h 44Cloud PoetryTextsWhat I’m reading today2021-03-0808 minCloud PoetryEl DoradoThe legend and history of El Dorado2021-03-0622 minCloud PoetryChaos as a Value in the Mythological background of Action PaintingBy Alicja Kępińska and Patrick Lee. Source: Artibus et Historiae, Vol 7, No. 14 p107-123, 19862021-03-0522 min