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[soracities]

Do you have any recs for beginners who want to write poetry? I love your blog so much!

there's a list of starter poetry recommendations for reading poetry here. For writing poetry I would recommend essays and nonfiction by poets: Upstream by Mary Oliver, Still Life with Lemons by Mark Doty, Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns by Robert Hass. If there are specific poets you like and admire, I would read their interviews to see how they themselves approach poetry and writing. I would also subscribe to Devin Kelly's Ordinary Plots substack, Padraig Ó'Tuama's Poetry Unbound (substack and podcast), and the On Being podcast's interviews with poets. There's also this section on The Poetry Society of America which features poets and writers interacting with either their own work, other's work, or simply discussing different aspects of writing and experiencing poetry.

I would also recommend really familiarising yourself with the technical aspects of poetry: poetic structures, rhyming schemes, language and all its textures etc., because those are the essential building blocks more than anything else. Practice writing poems following established formats: try your hand at an abcderian poem, or a sonnet, or a tanka, or a villanelle--the structural limitations are a good way to force yourself to really think about what you want to say and how you want to say it.

At the end of the day, the most important thing if you want to write is to read widely, and read often--and practice and practice and practice again. Learning to write anything is like training a muscle and you have to train and work it consistently. Hope this helps and best of luck with your writing endeavours anon 🤍

[madelynraemunson]

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☆ some favorite brews: pass the salt (e.m.), scenic route (e.m.), adult swim (e.m.), call me what you want (e.m.), the baby gate (s.h.)

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[stunie]

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[nobigsecrets]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 🤍

Thank you for this great message and for thinking of me! 💙

It wasn't easy to pick five fics, but these are some of the more self-indulgent things I've written. Unsurprisingly, it's all McDanno :)

Friday Night Rating: E, Words: 3,041 Nice things that happen on a random Friday night.

Don't Hide (Your Pride) Rating: T, Words: 4,743 Rainbows, everywhere. In all their colorful glory: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. It’s Hawaii, of course, Steve knows that. It’s a trademark, nothing more. He grew up here, by all means he should be used to them. Turns out, he’s not. Because every time his eyes land on yet another rainbow, he’s forcefully reminded of what other meaning they hold. To a certain group of people. People like him.

Me Ke Aloha Rating: T, Words: 11,569 Once Steve had learned about Joe’s will, that he had made sure Steve got the ranch, Steve knew that he had to come back here—for whatever it is that comes with it. He can’t shake the feeling there’s something left for him to uncover.

Runaway Rating: T, Words: 6,448 Steve is 16 and desperate enough to steal a car to get away from the Army-Navy Academy. Things don't go according to plan.

You Are A Boy (You Can't Be A Princess) Rating: T, Words: 1,809 Dress-up and play pretend is Charlie’s favorite game, has been for a while, and he has very clear ideas of his imaginary personas. He’s either a dragon-pirate, or a firefighter dog (there’s some cartoon series that he loves) and since Mary and Joanie visited two weeks ago, his favorite is being a princess.

[planet-marz1]

Hi Mari, I have some writer recs for you that I think you'd enjoy 🤍

Obviously, there are so many more, but I've newly discovered these three and enjoyed their work:

morallyinept - love her Ezra and Din especially, so hot and different

alwaysmicado - I am dying at fwb!Joel, I need him so bad; also love her Dieter

suzdin - her Dave York & Max Phillips series is so hot, I love it

hiii! 🩵 thank you so much for these recs!

I don't think I've read anything from these writer's yet, but I'm so excited to dive into all of their works :)

send me your favorite fics/ writers 🩷

[stormblessed95]

Happy Ace Week!

I've done this for a few different visibility awareness days/weeks/months and now it's time for everyone on the aro/ace spectrum to shine! Happy Ace Week friends. 💜 While searching for books that I could recommend that featured Ace characters I realized I was DRASTICALLY missing Representation of the ace community on my bookshelf. Which was... depressing. So what I'll be doing is sharing the few I have read and would recommend and then sharing the books I've found recommended by others that I am adding to my library waitlist as I am making this post!

Book Recommendations with Ace Representation for Ace Week! 💜🤍🖤

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

🔹️Ace biromantic MC

🔹️SciFi/Fantasy/Supernatural

🔹️Trigger Warnings are so important

🔹️Morally Grey or just bad? Lol you decide!

🔹️No romance in book 1 at all, I loved this duology, the ace rep is coded, not explicity stated but has been author confirmed. Been debate among the community over if this counts as ace rep or not, but im included it anyway since it was author confirmed, willing ti be corrected if needed! It was a ton of fun, fast paced and high stakes, kept me at the edge of my seat, in my opinion

Loveless by Alice Oseman (same author who wrote the beloved Heartstopper books)

🔹️Ace MC

🔹️Overall good and would recommend but it does have its own set of issues with some problematic stereotypes over bi/pan sexualities. Overall the message Is a positive one and one worth reading still in my opinion.

Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie

🔹️bisexual and Ace Bi romantic MCs

🔹️YA Contemporary

🔹️Adding to my TBR!

Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann

🔹️Ace Biromantic MC

🔹️YA Contemporary Collage Romance

🔹️Adding to my TBR!

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

🔹️Demisexual MC

🔹️New Adult Contemporary 18+

🔹️Adding to my TBR!

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

🔹️Demisexual MC

🔹️New Adult Romance 18+

🔹️ was actually originally Reylo Fanfic lol

🔹️ fake dating trope

🔹️Has its own set of problems again lol its not great writing, but it was fun. Enjoyed myself for the most part while reading even if I had some moments of cringiness. Lol

My Heart To Find by Elin Annalise

🔹️Ace, Demi, and Gray-sexual rep

🔹️chronically ill rep too

🔹️Adding to my TBR!

The Poppy War by RF Kuang

🔹️AroAce Rep for one of the MCs

🔹️Epic High Fantasy

🔹️If you read this book without reading the Trigger Warnings it's not my fault

🔹️Very Graphically violent but I throughly loved this book and am looking forward to finishing the Trilogy

Heartsong by TJ Klune

🔹️Book 3 in GreenCreek series

🔹️Ace MC, mlm relationship

🔹️Trigger Warnings for Violence mostly

🔹️again, has its problems, but I love this series ALOT lol and this book and relationship were SO CUTE and I would recommend them!

^ and from this author above, he has a new book coming out next year called "In the Lives of Puppets" and has already confirmed Ace Representation

Bonus mention to the Stormlight Archive as well, for minor Ace rep in a sort of side sort of main character. Author confirmed, Jasnah is Asexual heteroromantic.

Happy Ace Week friends! And Happy Reading! If anyone else has any other good recs to share with Ace Representation that I (or others) should check out, please share!

[mummer]

can i… hav some reading recs 🤍👀

ooooh yes!!!! i constantly wish i was more well-read than i am but here is an exhaustive list of everything that's ever rewritten my brain chemistry a bit. if you follow me you have probably seen me post about most of these things at one point or another but if you want to download the exact same brainworms as me here's where you should start

asoiaf of course. best if you read it at a tender age such as thirteen but i digress

kitchen by banana yoshimoto

angels in america by tony kushner (see it on stage first if at all POSSIBLE!!!! but if not that's fine)

the once and future king by t.h. white (related reading: h is for hawk by helen macdonald)

the sparrow by mary doria russell

slaughterhouse five by kurt vonnegut (cats cradle by him is also good)

wolf hall trilogy by hilary mantel

severance by ling ma

alien tapes by geo wyeth (album) (not a book) (still counts)

aphorisms by kafka (i have the schocken books version, idk if there are different translations lol)

if jewish/interested in judaism: certain people of the book by maurice samuel (i could only find this through my university library sorry.)

moon woke me up nine times: selected haiku of basho (transl. david young)

waiting for godot by samuel beckett and rozencrantz & guildenstern are dead by tom stoppard but they have to be read one after the other and then put away frustratedly for being stupid absurdist bullshit for like a year until the brain realizes via hibernation that they are actually smart

drive my car (movie)

alita: battle angel (movie)

[davisbette]

any book recs? <3

Hiii Natalie 🤍

- All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks

- My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel

- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

- The Mist Trilogy by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

- Dog Songs by Mary Oliver

[roosterbruiser]

self rec-ing my Mar[r]y Me fic!! (sorry I can’t link it on anon tumblr is the worsttttt) it’s an OC series with Rooster and Mary, who is the plus size service and repair manager for NAS North Island that he falls in love with 🩷 they’re pretty adorable and sexy if I do say so myself!

@callsignspark

PERFECT!!! I WILL REBLOG THE MASTERLIST AND GET TO READING ASAP!!!! SO EXCITED 🤍🤍🤍

[anytimebitchess]

Nat 🫶✨ asked for book recs 🫴📚🌷🤍🩷😻✨

🙃 a random 🍑 book that u might like :

Rouges by Patrick Radden 🫨✨

🫣 a book i read recently that u might like because the same discussion can also be applied to futbol?

Monsters by Claire Dederer

🙌 ⚽ if you haven't read this classic futbol related book :

Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano

🥹 a friend recommended me this recently but it wasn't rly my kind of book, but I get why people like it, and im passing on the rec to u in case u don't like the ones I like 🥹🙌🤍 :

Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra

🤡 this is what I like instead :

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

💀 and this too :

Death with Interruptions by José Saramago

🤗 just one more :

Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño

🫢 and lastly, another random 🍑 book that I like that u might too :

Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn

Enjoyyy 🤍🤍🤍🌷✨✨✨ let me know what kind of books u like too 🫶🐈⚽✨

OMG THANK YEWw…🥰🫂✨💓🫶🏼💯

Your taste>>>😵💓✨⚠️

I haven’t gotten much into Spanish or South American literature, but I’ve heard that it is amazing! 😍 when I’ll see some of these books at the bookstore, I’ll definitely check them out and buy them 😄🤞🏼💯🫶🏼💛💖 There was a point in my life where I mostly read Russian lit…🌚 that was an experience😵‍💫 I especially love Russian short stories or poetry🤭💯

My recs for you (in no particular order) 🤭📚✨💯

Independent People - Halldor Laxnes (the most Icelandic book in existence, I love it so much because it talks shit about Icelanders hihi 🤭)

The Bear and The Nightingale - Katherine Arden (this book is ideal to read during winter time, the story is so captivating and I really love the main character and the folklore aspect of the story)

The Left Hand Of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin (feminist sci-fi anthropology book 🫶🏼)

Feed - M.T Anderson (a sad reality of what the internet and technology might do to us…😵‍💫😗✌🏼)

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (this book hit me harder than driving straight at a brick wall 200km/h. I cry like a baby every time, idk why. Jane is so relatable!)

Goodby to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood

Season of Migration of the North - Tayeb Salith (This book is so chaotic, it’s a vibe)

The Art of Loving - Erich Fromm

Love Is a Mixtape - Rob Sheffield (the music recs in this book >>>🫠)

Cosmos - Carl Sagan (therapy)

My Inventions and Other Writings - Nikola Tesla

Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How - Brian Klass (this book is so good I might love non-fiction because of it…not possible! But this book is so GOOD!)

Orlando - Virginia Wolf

The Spire - William Golding (it’s kinda boring and dry, but after reading it it sticks with you on how ego can consume people)

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (woman written by a woman, also this will make you depressed)

Project Hail Mary - Andy Wier (FUNNY ASS BOOK + it’s very needy)

Master and Margarita - Mikhali Bulgakov (a masterpiece 🙀💗✨💯)

Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin (poetry)

Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakiami ( perfect example of women written by men)

And for my go-to comfort read is always the Shatter Me series (Aaron Warner is the love of my life, period 💍💯✨💗), or ACOTAR. I also like to re-read the Little Prince, Peter Pan or The Grest Gatsby when I don’t know what to read lol.

This are so many recs 🥵🤓 but I have lot more 🤭😭 I read quite a lot🌝 There are also many books, which I like, but haven’t yet been translated into English 😅🥲

Hope some of my recs would interest you 🤲🏼🤓🤗💞✨

IF anyone who wants to send in more recs, please do! 🤲🏼💖☺️🤓

[notebookmusical]

You don't have to worry about replying especially cuz I knew you were having fun at the show!!! That's so great and makes me more excited for Friday! I am trying to watch less videos this week leading up to the show..even if I'm pretty familiar with everything lol. If I am going to see Barbie, it would be tomorrow but I'm not sure yet. I'll let you know my thoughts if I watch it! And also if I eventually see Les Mis or Paramore. I would recommend all of Paramore's music honestly but if you want specific song recs let me know!

Haha I also talk a lot more online to people mostly thru Tumblr asks since they're anonymous lol. It's so hard for me sometimes to find other people with the same interests as me otherwise and around the same age. I just wanna say it's been really nice talking to you this week and I'm letting you know I'm 27 lol. I didn't know if you thought I was a lot younger cuz I said I still read YA.

Anyway I'm so happy for you that you manifested a debut song and Rep for your friend! Also that Marjorie memory is so sweet. It's like when Taylor says you will have lasting memories of this tour every night and that seems like a special one. Have you been to a Taylor concert before? I've only been to rep even if I've been a fan since debut and I wonder how it compares to Eras. I'm sure it will be better in a way just cuz there's more going on but I really enjoyed Rep tour too! I guess the only things I'm curious about or worried about is how was standing for the show and how many videos you took? My sister and I were talking about this yesterday and I was like maybe a little bit of each era but that seems like a lot maybe..idk. Also what was your favorite part of the show?

I'll try not to hope for too many things at my shows. I'm super excited to see No Body no Crime with Haim though and I haven't watched a video or anything yet. One costume I really love is the pink gown for Speak Now..seeing that in person would be amazing! But I think she usually wears it for night two. I also like the green surprise song dress and pink or green Folklore or 1989. Those are my favorite colors. For surprise songs..like I said, I wouldn't mind two songs I just liked generally even if they weren't favorites or anything. That was kinda the case for your shows to me but I'm glad you loved them! I also might not care as much once I'm there and enjoying it. For debut, one of my fav songs is Mary's song but idk if she would play it. I wouldn't mind Stay Beautiful or something from Fearless. I'd like any vault song she didn't perform yet fine but would hope for I Can See You or Forever Winter. Anything from Rep, Lover, Folklore or Midnights. I'm kinda surprised she didn't sing a Folklore song last night cuz of the album anniversary. There are a few on Evermore I wouldn't care for..lol but would love Long Story Short!

wait!! i really want to have our conversations under a specific tag 🤍 do you want to pick an emoji? 🥺 i'm really glad you decided to message me!! i always love talking to people and making new friends 🤍 and also wanted to add there's no shame in reading YA in your 20s! books are for everyone 🤍

i was originally going to try to take my mom to barbie sometime this week, but i think i might have a bit too much to do this week before i go to chicago so i might have to do it when i'm back. i definitely want to see it again soon though! i am notoriously bad at watching movies, but i do really want to watch a bunch this year. i'd originally set up a "23 in 2023" yearly collections journal, and so part of that was that i wanted to watch 23 movies ... but i stopped keeping track and now i'm just a 🤡.

i went to the red tour in seattle way back when but have also been a fan since debut!! i was hoping to do rep tour, but then something came up and it just didn't work out, so i'm really, really glad things worked out the way it did with eras. for night 1, i was in the nosebleeds and you could feel the ground shaking. i was mostly standing aside from i think part of folklore and transitions? i think i sat down at another point. last night, i was standing for everything except all too well 10 minute version (if i didn't use atw10 for my bathroom break/water bottle refill break on saturday, i probably would've sat down during it too — just to give myself a break), i think i sat down for my tears ricochet, and then transitions. i wore tennis shoes, and my feet hurt so much by the end of the night (to be fair, i messed up my ankle last week and so part of my feet hurting was from that + queueing for gracie + standing for her acoustic set too). i would say to focus more on taking care of your body — if you're tired, sit! there's no shame in that 🤍 when i got back to my friend's apartment after eras (i was staying at her place all weekend since she lives within walking distance to lumen), i immediately changed into pjs/showered/etc + stretched + put on icy hot + ate + took advil before bed and it honestly wasn't terrible after night one but getting out of bed today was awful (i also didn't sleep much at her place, to be fair + did a lot more dancing / walking / standing yesterday). i took a couple videos, but not for the entire song; most of it was just little clips here and there, like i knew i wanted to get the fireworks or like i knew she'd do a specific face/dance move/something at a specific moment, and then i got the speeches just for fun! you and your sister could also decide who films what and do a little trade off (i assume y'all are sitting together)!! a lot of people around me were filming a lot of the concert and also were dancing around a lot; don't worry about being judged (and if people judge you, screw them!). i will say, keep in mind that merch lines will be nuts (once you get in, go to a merch line inside — like one closer to your seats, if you're able to/if you want merch) and vegetarian options go quickly in terms of food, if you're vegetarian! on night one, my friends and i went straight for merch and one of my friends did a food run and grabbed us food so we were able to eat while we waited. night two, we got in, did the cap one elevator thing (which was so fun!) and then we went straight for food. i was trying to meet up with a friend during the gracie/HAIM break and my friend i was sitting next to asked if i could get her food since i was out and she's vegetarian — i had to go to five different spots before i finally found something! oh, and be prepared that leaving is going to be ... awful. weave if you're able to, hold onto each other, etc! it does not help that lumen field is close to downtown, but it really was ... brutal trying to get out of there.

is there a particular section/song you're looking forward to the most?

personally, my favorite part of the show was long live, but the energy around reputation and also no body no crime both nights was out of this world. listening to long live and dancing around with your best friends is something that is just so special, and for me, i was that ~ weird swiftie girl ~ growing up and so being able to experience tour with people who loved taylor — and also loved me — was just so ... special. reputation is the album i listen to the least (i have to be in a very specific mood for it, but i do love it) but was one of the best sections i think! this isn't anything new that people haven't already said, but i think the eras tour is structured so well — every time my energy level started to dip a bit something was happening next that brought it back up.

so i was fully expecting TTDS on night 1, and since i was up in the nosebleeds that night, i saw parts of her dress before i recognized HAIM was coming up with her and i SCREAMED "not stinky dress" and lowkey fucked up my voice because i was so excited that the bronze dress was back. and then i heard the sirens and it was ... amazing. no body no crime is usually one of my skip songs (not because i don't like it, but because the sirens stress me out and i usually listen to evermore in the car, hence ... stress) but their performance was electric and just so, so fun.

we got the pink gown last night, and it was so pretty!! my friends and i played swiftball on saturday night (since we were all getting ready together saturday; yesterday some of us went to gracie's acoustic set, etc.) and i was manifesting so hard for purple speak now cupcake dress but honestly the speak now dresses are SO pretty. the one dress we were all really manifesting for was the green folklore dress (and i also really wanted the white folklore dress, which i got night one), so i feel very very lucky! my friends and i were split up last night (two of us were in section 109 row d, the other four were in 117) and saturday (three of us were in 309 row g, one of us was in 309 row j, one of us was in 320 row ee) and so we were texting in between transition periods —

the thing about surprise songs is there's genuinely not a single bad song! every single night i'm like "damn, i wish i was there" even if it's a song i don't totally love. i cannot wait for her to play me! — i was telling everyone how much i would've loved to hear me! on guitar or on piano. i would love her to sing beautiful ghosts, crazier, etc. i went on tiktok earlier and saw people being upset about TTWAS and it made me soooo sad because i genuinely love love love it. when we got this is why we can't have nice things on night one i was like omg a rep song for my bestie!!! it was just so fun, even though i don't usually listen to it. but also, it is like, two songs out of forty five — i was telling my friends she could do the SNL monologue and i would've had fun just being in the moment 🤍

i would LOVE for her to play mary's song at some point — i know it's like, a running joke on here that she soundchecked it. i was really, really hoping for castles crumbling, foolish one or forever winter in terms of vault songs, but i cannot complain at all about my surprise songs. literally everyone around me was so shocked she didn't sing a single speak now song for surprise songs, and also didn't do anything for folklore's anniversary! ugh long story short would be SO fun to listen to — are you hoping for piano or guitar? i'm also curious about which evermore songs you don't particularly care for!!

[battlebreasts]

Good news from my healthcare ppl but good in that "we'll pay for your new cunt but you must subject yourself to the scrutiny of the council" way that makes me oh so scared and nervous and shaking like a small animal

[foreverdolly]

Do you read anyone else’s fics? Or does writing, take up all your time on here? I’m just genuinely curious if you have any favorite stories? ( you may of been asked this already) -

🤍lola

i will be honest- i don't read as much as i should on this site now that i'm writing daily, but i want to remedy that. if anyone has any recs or if you want me to read your writing, just message me ! i'm an absolute sucker for a well written fic. i'm not doing this in any sort of order btw ! just writing them down as they come to me. if i haven't mentioned a fic of yours- it's not because i don't like it ! it probably means that i just haven't gotten to it yet !

here are some fics that genuinely buttered my biscuit and had my one hundred and fifteen pound, tiny chihuahua-ass doing backflips down the hallway:

forbidden desire- @mamaspresley ( i read this three times within the first 48 hours of it being posted. i would suck the grease out of austin's hair in this movie like a damn rat. i'm jealous of the pitbull that got to chomp on this man's nutsack. i wish i was the doorframe where his ass got curb stomped. jackie did the damn thing on this one. if anyone knew how many times i've actually read this fic, someone might take my phone away from me. i told her that this was one of my favorite tumblr fics in the history of ever and she didn't believe me. "really?" yes, girl. yes. this had me doing the bend and snap. jackie you're so talented.)

to find a cure- @mamaspresley ( adorable. couldn't breathe the entire time. i had my inhaler in my lap and was clutching my modelo with my free hand. knuckles pale. knees quivering. mom's spaghetti. i'm nervous.)

into you - @dreamersparacosm ( this was actually one of the first austin fics i read post-elvis, which is super cool since you were one of my first mutuals as well ! ang, your writing is stellar. this shit had me doing laps around the house. i had to fight off the urge to propose to you. i told my mom about us. the way you write austin??? jesus, mary, joseph, the donkey and all the wise men.)

going method - @oh-austin (this is just so cute to read. it cured my depression and straightened out my scoliosis. i'm also no longer lactose intolerant, and i think this might also be connected to the series.)

the big shot mississippi boy - @ghxst-heart (i devoured this series in one sitting, and am anxiously awaiting part eight. the way that you are able to so accurately describe the 50's. . . it's almost as though you've lived it yourself ! not to mention the way that you write for elvis??? amazing amazing amazing. you deserve all the love.)

a whole man is hard to find- @aconflagrationofmyown (this fic is going to be my downfall, i can just feel it. marina- please don't give me a heart attack. i'm not ready to die yet. i haven't gotten to peg, and i have a few more things after that to cross off the ole' bucket list.)

familiarity- @blainesebastian (i adore this idea, and what you've done with it is absolutely out of this world. you have this fantastic way of making your reader inserts so relatable. it feels very real and i mean that in the best way possible. like any ole' person can run into austin butler while reaching for the coveted maple clusters. gorgeous.)

on a serious note: there's definitely way more than this. i'll be making a second post of more recommendations at a later date, that way everyone can get the love and appreciation that they deserve. thank you all for what you do for this fandom. just know that your hard work does not go unnoticed. i know that most of you either have school work or maybe even a full time job (like myself), and the fact that you set time aside to write for other's enjoyment is selfless, and quite amazing of you. you are seen, loved, and so so talented.

[s0livagant]

current song recs: i know the end by phoebe bridgers, bulls in the bronx by pierce the veil, angie by the rolling stones, then came the last days of may by blue oyster cult, and proud mary by creedence clearwater revival 🤍🤍

LOVE the variety & very excited to listen to all of these

[firstfullmoon]

hi pau and happy new year ❣❣ i hope this isn't a bother but do you have any recs for books (poetry/fiction/nonfiction it doesn't matter) that explore the relationship between love and distance? loving from a distance? does that make sense im sorry if i don't make sense 😭

happy new year to you as well 🤍  i think the book that most embodies love from a distance is from a to x: a story in letters by john berger and i think you would love it! along similar lines, maybe if beale street could talk by james baldwin & the mail exchanges from beautiful world, where are you by sally rooney as well. no full poetry collections on this theme come to mind but i made a poetry compilation on long distance some time ago here & i would add “on distance” by paige lewis and “a letter from home” by mary oliver. hope you will find something you like!