#mothman apologia

[soracities]

Robert Wood Lynn, "I Remember You Best as the Man", Mothman Apologia [ID'd]

[soulmaking]

Robert Wood Lynn, from Mothman Apologia

[outraspraias]

Robert Wood Lynn, “The Mothman Pronounces Appalachia”

[everywarmth]

"The Mothman Picks Up a Misdemeanor" from Robert Wood Lynn's Mothman Apologia

[almond-tofu-chan]

source

[typewriter-worries]

The Glass Essay, Anne Carson | Molly Brodak, Molly Brodak | Mothman Apologia, Robert Wood Lynn | The Numbers Game, Emily Berry

[weltenwellen]

Robert Wood Lynn, "(The Mothman Drops Out)", Mothman Apologia

[firstfullmoon]

Robert Wood Lynn, “Sneaking onto the Reservoir Again,” in Mothman Apologia

[catboymettaton]

@korrororo and @lightyakami both tagged me to share books I want to read this year and I never responded till now because I do not think that far in advance however here is my bookstore haul + one book I already had and wanted to read. I’d also really like to read guards guards but somehow not a single library seems to have it

Trans Anthology Project: Reflections of Self-Discovery and Acceptance by Chrissy Boylan and Heather H. Kirby (wrangled my dad into buying this one a few months ago)

Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major (I’ve heard a lot about her before!)

The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (for obvious reasons)

Disability Visibility: First-person stories from the twenty-first century by Alice Wong (I have really enjoyed her other works and I want to read more disability literature)

A Short History of Transmisogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson (also obvious reasons I hope)

Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the 20th Century by Bianca Mabute-Louie (kyo inspired me to get this one)

LGBTQ fiction and poetry from Appalachia edited by Jeff Mann and Julia Watts (been getting really into poetry and I just read Mothman apologia)

Why Are People Into That? A Cultural Investigation of Kink by Tina Horn (I saw it on the Valentine’s Day display and it was the only copy and I said to myself I should think about it and come back in two weeks and I still want it then I’ll get it. and then I said to myself what if the Valentine’s Day section is gone in two weeks. and that is why I then proceeded to purchase an additional six books.)

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tagging @horaitos @pollackpatrol @dullahandyke @allodyniaangel @rc-dragons @jedi-valjean @stillfightingdragons @skyborneveggie and anyone else who wants to do this

[kvothes]

I'm sure someone has asked you this before but top 5 books of poetry?

i feel like i don’t need to tell abt crush by richard siken for the umpteenth time so i’ll stick to recent favorites!

ballast, quenton baker - incredible erasure poetry about a slave revolt

after nature, w.g. sebald - dense, layered, weaving narratives; tricky with its syntax but rewarding

all the flowers kneeling, paul tran - gender & trauma & myth, truly beautiful images

mothman apologia, robert wood lynn - appalachian identity & the opioid crisis, pretty accessible imo

the world keeps ending, and the world goes on, franny choi - climate apocalypse considered with care & compassion, very clear-eyed and lovely

[fantasythemesong]

from mothman apologia by robert wood

[atinylittlepain]

Mothman Apologia, Robert Wood Lynn

[dk-thrive]

When we started, when you started here with me, we had such hopes. Such uses for logic. Like gulps of air. Like body parts and places to put them. I escaped from you like a reason. Like bone does from a fossil. I ached to become a ghost and when I did I even ghosted the long pauses. Hush hush. I wrote silence down instead of speaking it. I write silence and the silence answers with more silence. I write inhales. I write the pauses and then haunt them too, until they stay quiet and afraid in their corners. Pause, I write. And pause silences pause.

— Robert Wood Lynn, “(The Mothman Drops Out)”, Mothman Apologia (Yale University Press, March 22, 2022)

[sixtyfivehundredinvisiblebirds]

What I read in 2023

2023 Either/Or- Elif Batuman Arcadia- Lauren Groff The Buddha in the Attic- Julie Otsuka Monsters- Claire Dederer Also a Poet: My father, Frank O’Hara and me- Ada Calhoun Bodywork- Melissa Febos Vanishing Fleece- Clara Parkes The Idiot- Elif Batuman Syllabus- Lynda Barry The Women’s House of Detention- Hugh Ryan Saving Time- Jenny Odell Sag Harbor- Colson Whitehead (re-read, very happily) All Night Pharmacy- Ruth Madievsky Moby Dick- Herman Melville Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow- Gabrielle Zevin Mare’s Nest- Holly Mitchell Lima :: Limón- Natalie Scenters-Zapico Heliopause- Heather Christle The Changeling- Victor LaValle The Secret History- Donna Tartt Punks: New and Selected Poems- John Keene Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers- Jake Skeets Togetherness- Wo Chan Soundmachine- Rachel Zucker Superdoom- Melissa Broder Philomath- Devon Walker-Figueroa Exiles of Eden- Ladan Osman NSFW- Isabel Kaplan Junk- Tommy Pico Draw Me After- Peter Cole O- Zeina Hashem Beck The Interestings- Meg Wolitzer Civil Service- Claire Schwartz My Education- Susan Choi Without Protection- Gala Mukomolova Mothman Apologia- Robert Wood Lynn A Nail the Evening Hangs On- Monica Sok The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On- Franny Choi Space Struck- Paige Lewis The Underground Railroad- Colson Whitehead Bliss Montage- Ling Ma Our Spoons Came from Woolworths- Barbara Comyns Garments Against Women- Anne Boyer Don’t Let Me Be Lonely- Claudia Rankine (reread) Present Tense Machine- Gunnhild Øyehaung, tr. Sophie Hughes Celestia- Manuele Fior, tr. Jamie Richards Night Bus- Zuo Ma, tr. Orion Martin Nightbitch- Rachel Yoder Boundless- Jillian Tamaki Your black friend and other strangers- Ben Passmore Library of Small Catastrophes- Alison C. Rollins Nerd: Adventures in fandom from this universe to the multiverse- Maya Phillips Desperate Characters- Paula Fox The Bird King- G. Willow Wilson Alienation- Inés Estrada The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop- Felicia Rose Chavez The Year of Blue Water- Yanyi Pale Colors in a Dark Field- Carl Phillips I Remember- Joe Brainard Manywhere- Morgan Thomas Obit- Victoria Chang Memorial- Brian Washington Girlhood- Melissa Febos Hot and Bothered: what no one tells you about menopause- Jancee Dunn

[labyrinth-guy]

AG's best reads of 2023

the best books i read this year were all super trans (i don't make the rules)

Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante

My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi

Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan

Dyke (Geology) by Sabrina Imbler

Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney

+ honorable mentions

best short fiction narrated by a queer mountain lion: Open Throat by Henry Hoke

best fucked up little absurd short story collection: Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

best poetry narrated by a cryptid: Mothman Apologia by Robert Wood Lynn

[typewriter-worries]

Mothman Apologia, Robert Wood Lynn | Wildflower, Billie Eilish | Straw House, Straw Dog, Richard Siken