#NA Literature

[stargirlanthem]

i love reading to distract myself from eating 📚 🍂

[his-heart-hymns]

Today my mom was singing Mirza Ghalib's most famous ghazal, "yeh na thi humari qismat" (This was not our destiny). I said her "Let me record " and she replied "I won't let you record. I know you'll post it on your Tumblr and your friends will laugh at my voice." 😆After a lot of persuasion she finally agreed. Please ignore my strange voice, I have cold.😅

ye na thi humaari qismat ke wisaal-e-yaar hota agar aur jeete rehte yahi intezaar hota.

It was not my destiny that there would be a union with my beloved. If I had lived further on, there would have been this same waiting.

ye kaha ki dosti hai ke bane hain dost naaseh koi chaarasaaz  hota, koi ghamgusaar hota

What kind of friendship is this, where the friends have now become advisors. If only there were some healer, if only there was some sympathizer.

[bubblesandpages]

Love the centuries long female literary tradition of writing men who fall for women who hate their guts.

[aashufta-sar]

Waqt ki qaid mein zindagi hai magar, chand ghadiyan yehi hain jo aazad hain

[uwmspeccoll]

Indigenous Nations Poets

A couple of weeks ago UWM Special Collections hosted an all-day LanguageBack poetry-writing workshop with 21 Indigenous participants, sponsored by Indigenous Nations Poets (In Na Po), a national Indigenous poetry community committed to mentoring emerging writers and nurturing the growth of Indigenous poetic practices, recognizing the role of poetry in sustaining tribal sovereign nations and Native languages. This was one of three workshops taking place in Wisconsin, and our session focused on the poetic use of Oneida and Ojibwe, two of the six main Indigenous languages practiced in Wisconsin. The workshop was organized and led by In Na Po founding director, UWM professor emerita of English, and 2015-16 Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser. Participants included young writers, community members, poetry scholars, and Indigenous-language specialists.

Much of the day was spent in Indigenous-language instruction and poetry-writing exercises. Participants also spent time reviewing selections from our extensive collection of poetry by Ojibwe and Oneida writers, as well as Indigenous-language materials in Oneida and Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa). One of the participants, poet and York University English professor Kenzie Allen (Oneida), a PhD graduate from UWM, was very surprised and deeply honored that her new collection of poetry Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024) was included in the selections.

UWM professor emeritus of English Lane Hall, co-founder of the Overpass Light Brigade, also joined us for the day, and as night fell we each grabbed a Light Brigade letter, marched from the library to UWM's Fire Circle (much to the curiosity of passerbys), and performed a series Indigenous-language light displays. Afterwards, we warmed ourselves with a meal of wild rice, frybread and buffalo tacos, and corn and venison chowder (yuuuumy!!). We ended the day with readings of work created during the workshop. Just magical!

Click or tap on the Alt image descriptions, and thanks to filmmaker Dusan Harminc for sending us these photos. Chi miigwech!!

Shekoli is an Oneida greeting.

Miigwech is "Thank you" in Ojibwe.

View other posts from our Native American Literature Collection.

[pyaari-naari]

I want a man who's taller than me. No. Not for aesthetic purposes or because we'd look good together with the height difference.

It's not a want or a need, it's more like a feeling. Someone who can make my inner child feel safe, inside and out. Because all my life I've been the support pillar, the "caring" one in everyone's life.

I want to be "cared for".

I want to be sat down and told that I don't have to work so hard all the time. I want to be spoilt but not for counting favours later on. I want to have the freedom of choosing any kind of food for my own liking. I want to be bundled up, warm inside and out. I want my heart to feel heavy with love and care the other feels for me. I want to be held. I want to be told that it's okay to lean on someone, even when things are alright. I want someone to listen, to let me curl small in their arms.

I want him to care for me. To make me feel like a person of myself. To prioritise me over anyone else.. even for a fleeting moment.

And I want to be able to be given the space to be vulnerable. The space to be myself for once.

I'll take it even if it's pretend. I'll take it even if it's for a day.

I'll take it even if it's for a moment. . .

I'll take the moment of being 'cared for' and live my entire life 'caring' for everyone.

But I think I'm asking for too much.

[whocaresaboutyourlonelysoul]

talking to my grandfather today about and subtly trying to talk about les amis and marius' character in book vs musical without seeming incredibly obsessed with them: impossible edition

[theophan-o]

Miłosne wyznanie Ketlinga (napisane przez Henryka Sienkiewicza ręką własną, a potem, z nieznanego nam bliżej powodu, wykreślone przez niego z tekstu rozdziału XIII "Pana Wołodyjowskiego"):

Odczytu z niepublikowanego rękopisu Autora dokonał prof. J. Krzyżanowski (Pokłosie Sienkiewiczowskie. Szkice literackie, Warszawa 1973, s. 632 = Zaniechane stronice "Trylogii" czyli Sienkiewicza skreślenia ostatniej chwili, red. T. Bujnicki, Kraków 1999, s. 62)

@ketlingowy-ogrod, specjalnie dla Ciebie!

[ineffablelvrs]

tak sb wyobrażam wołodyjowskiego i skrzetuskiego w tej jednej scenie w więzieniu w kiejdanach

[verademialove]

“A rowdy friendship and passionate love. Because those brief moments are what make your long life shine.”

Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022)

[cage-cat-yt]

Art summary of 2024 💥

This was. a year. Some parts the best and some parts genuinely the worst lol. But whatever I'm alive

[edwardslovelyelizabeth]

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams

"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over, until it's familiar and cherished and they know every note by heart."

[juzanek]

chuj w dupe mickiewieczowi, nienawiedze adama mickiewicza (mam nadzieje ze podadza ci czarna polewke stary)

slowacki i jego kordian zawsze bedzie lepszy od dziadow mickiewicza, nawet kochanowski przyniosl mi mniej cierpienia i tortur niz adam

[mi-a-mor]

وعدہ

ایسا وعدہ کرو جو تم پورا کر سکو

یا وعدے بالکل نہ کریں۔

کیونکہ اگر تم وعدہ کرو اور اسے پورا نہ کرو

ہو سکتا ہے کوئی آپ کا وعدہ پورا کرنے کا انتظار کر رہا ہو۔

اور اگر انہیں معلوم ہو جائے کہ آپ نے وعدہ پورا نہیں کیا تو آپ کے خیال میں ان کے ساتھ کیا ہو گا؟

[autumnrose11]

I have begun to read Northanger Abbey.

It was the only Austen novel I hadn't read so far, and I AM LOVING IT. I'm enjoying it differently to her other books because with this one, I'm grinning from ear to ear at nearly every page. IT IS HILARIOUS.

Right from the very beginning, when she's leaving for Bath.

"When the hour of departure drew near, the maternal anxiety of Mrs Morland will be naturally supposed to be most severe. A thousand alarming presentiments of evil to her beloved Catherine from this terrific separation must oppress her heart with sadness, and drown her in tears for the last day or two of their being together; and advice of the most important and applicable nature must of course flow from her wise lips in their parting conference in her closet."

Reminds me of when I was going away on a school trip when I was younger (it was for four days or so, and I'd never been away from home on my own before) and my mum had a long talk with me about everything I should and shouldn't do - mostly what I shouldn't do - and absolutely insisted I call or text her every hour to give her updates :D I found that relatable and .... this book is making me smile to myself like a loon.

I enjoyed Catherine's conversation with Mr Tilney during their dance. I like him quite a bit already - his self-deprecating humour where he calls himself a "queer, half-witted man, who would make [her] dance with him, and distressed [her] by his nonsense." Heeeeeeeeeeee! 😂

And I do like a guy who buys dresses for his sister and actually knows the first thing about women's fashion. YES I approve. Henry Tilney, if you keep this up, you may be my second book crush. (The first being Gilbert Blythe).

Off I go now to read Chapter 6.

[sproooti]

Cringetober days 2-7! (I am very behind)

Days 2, 3, 4, and 6: Tsundere (Natsuki), Oversized prop (Niko Oneshot with The Sun), Fursona/Fursuit (my old Dragoncat OC from a while ago), and Unnatural eye color (Gojo).

more under the cut

Day 5: Gijinka (Sanrio/My Melody).

Day 7: Crossover (Sanrio/Cinamoroll + Johnny Joestar). I hope this counts as a crossover haha

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These are a lot of fun to draw but I’m super behind because I haven’t been able to do them every day. I’m currently trying to catch up so expect to see more of these eventually!