#sweetdark

[romanticbroadcast]

there’s the black chasm of want expanding in my chest the way a bead of ink breaks, making me difficult to touch without an exit plan.

— Savannah Brown, “The Universe May Stop Expanding in Five Billion Years” (from Sweetdark)

[just-rogi]

The fact that Sav Brown has a fetlife account haunts me like ahab and his whale, not because I find sexuality to be taboo- nor because I could not picture her as a sexual being with her own autonomy and desire and not just the funny little woman who makes colorful videos and writes poetry, but rather, because I’ve read every piece of poetry that she’s published since she was a teenager and I KNOW that bitch is fucked up and has a little autistic swag, so I’m terrified to know how that translates to the bedroom. Like girl I know you aren’t in therapy, and have talked at length about how you crave validation and the feeling of a connected humanity and the euphoriic thrill of death in an existencial sense- like genuinely what the FUCK does the bitch who wrote madness of two have on her fetlife account I NEED to know this … I know this is soooo parasocial but god i want to know what that exact cocktail of fucked up looks like in the bedroom (other than the obvious praise kink, sorry sav)

[sweetdarkness13]

Esa sensación de no pertenecer. La idea de querer huir. La incomodidad de no poder estar. Simplemente creer que todo está mal y no saber porqué.

- Sweet D.

[thevoumagazinesblog]

[basseadg]

ティラミスだいすき

[weziu]

a love story 

- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life / Beyond Evil dir. Shim Na-yeon / Savannah Brown, Sweetdark /  Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

[kozmosjeravnodusan]

rating all the books i read in june:

1. Closer Baby Closer by Savannah Brown - 4/5 many bangers, some poems not that memorable, loved her other poetry collection (Sweetdark), have not read her other work

2. On Sun Swallowing by Dakota Warren (reread) - 5/5 absolutely adore this book, one of my fav poetry collections, i love the way she writes and the themes she writes about

3. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 3/5 not a huge fan, the entire party felt so rushed and it was jumping around to other characters a bit too much kinda got lost at a few points, like her other books a lot more

(i had way too many exams in june so i only read 3 books :’( if anyone has any similar recommendations feel free to comment/reblog)

[honeysound]

The distance between us mirrors the distance between two stars.

Venus - Sleeping At Last // Dark Star - Yuriy Musatov // Sweetdark - Savannah Brown // Redshift - Darwin Deez & Nocturne in Black and Gold - James Abbott McNeill Whistler

[wishblown]

The Great Question before us is: Are we doomed? The Great Question before us is: Will the Past release us? The Great Question before us is: Can we Change? In Time? And we all desire that Change will come.

— Tony Kushner; Angels in America

March Reads!

Closer Baby Closer by Savannah Brown — 5/5: Sav Brown you did it again <3 def my most anticipated release of the year (preordered a signed copy last year hehe) and it did not disappoint! not sure if it's better than Sweetdark but why pit them against each other??? Brown is a genius, a miracle worker, the one whose poetry I always send to my gf (ty sm for Sex poem), she truly is for the lovers, the no longer lovers, the longers, and for anyone looking up at the stars and feeling horny. will re-read this so so so many times just like Sweetdark

On Photography by Susan Sontag — 4.5/5: ‘must read’ for anyone who’s interested in photography even the least bit!!!! besides Sontag’s writing just generally being incredible, this is just such a good source on the complex history of the art and ‘non-art’ (!) of photography and what it does to both the photographers and their subjects. informative and never boring.

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides — 4/5: has anything ever depicted the male gaze better fr; just a group a boys romanticising and stalking a group of sisters who’re in a desperate situation and grieving the death of their sister to the point they cannot even help them bc they’re so obsessed with the fantasy world they’ve created for these girls and themselves in their minds, just men being men </3

The Employees by Olga Ravn — 3.5/5: this one was different! not your usual scifi I suppose. I enjoyed the style of the logged interviews of the different crew members that slowly revealed the plot yet never fully and also let you see some personality and reoccurring characters even though they were anonymous. compelling story and questions asked — who’s human? what’s human? can you become human? what do you gain, what do you lose? — in a somewhat new light

Der Richter und sein Henker (The Judge and His Hangman) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt — 3.5/5: I’m a Dürrenmatt girl I have to admit :/ this one wasn’t my favourite of his (not as much depth to the story perhaps?) but still very enjoyable and a typical Dürrenmatt plot twist and character types

Angels in America by Tony Kushner — 5/5: absolutely incredible. if you haven’t read this, please please do. beautiful writing, great characters, great insight into lgbt history. looking into seeing this actually played on stage now.

[eternalintestines]

savannah brown, from 'the universe may stop expanding in five billion years' in 'sweetdark'

[sim1blanket]

FOLIE À DEUX by Savannah Brown from Sweetdark (2020)

[romanticbroadcast]

— Savannah Brown, “Observation” (from Sweetdark)

[just-rogi]

I loooove starting books and getting halfway through and starting another and flipping between them, but this week I’ve hit a new peak

I am currently in the middle of

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Sweetdark

The Secret History

The Things We Don’t See

Alone in Space

Catcher In The Rye

Closer Baby Closer

The Ship of Theseus

Colossus (Sylvia Plath)

AND If Not Winter

These are not books I’ve started and then abandoned- these are books that I’ve been actively reading and flipping between they are all on my bedside table right now

I literally found a used copy of catcher in the rye in the dollar bin of a bookstore and started reading it on the train home just bc I had it in my hands- I got nine chapters I’m reading it exclusively on the T hope I make one aesthetic academia literature bitch shit themselves, oh, and I dog ear my pages and annotate in pen <333

[sweetdarkness13]

Tu mensaje me volvió a la vida pero no puedo continuar con la fantasía de que algún día estarás junto a mí, aléjate! porque si me armo de valor no te dejaré ir.

- Sweet D.

[gena-rowlands]

jean's read in 2022

hello! so as university reading will take up a lot of the rest of my reading for the year, i thought i'd give a full wrap up here! i may update a few times, but this is my almost-comprehensive reading list of 2022! (insp. by @adamronans)

books in red come with moderate< trigger warnings so feel free to ask on/off anon for more info or please look up the tw's before reading!

non-poetry:

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (★★★★★)

The Dumb House by John Burnside (★★★★★)

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (★★★★)

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (★★★½)

Heaven by Mieka Kawakami (★★½)

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (★★★★★)

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (★★★★½)

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca (★★)

Clementine #1 by Tillie Walden (★★★)

Fragments of Horror by Junji Ito (★★★★)

Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (★★)

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (★★★)

The Sluts by Dennis Cooper (No Rating)

We Have Always Lived in The Castle by Shirley Jackson (★★★★)

Heartstopper vol.1 by Alice Oseman (★★★★★)

Queers: Eight Monologues by Mark Gatiss (★★★★½)

Heartstopper vol.2 by Alice Oseman (★★★★★)

The Harpy by Megan Hunter (★★★★)

Politics and the English Language by George Orwell (★)

Little Weirds by Jenny Slate (★★★★½)

Alcestis by Euripides (★★★★)

Medea by Euripides (★★★★½)

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (★★★★½)

Pew by Catherine Lacey (★★★½)

Pine by Francine Toon (★★)

Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz (★★★★★)

Normal People by Sally Rooney (★★★★)

poetry:

The Book of Women by Dorianne Laux (★★★★½)

Flux by Orion Carloto (★★★)

Sweetdark by Savannah Brown (★★★★½)

Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass by Lana Del Rey (★★★½)

Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood (★★★★★)

She Felt Like Nothing by R.H. Sin (★½)

Madness by Sam Sax (★★★★½)

soft magic. by Upsile Chisala (★★)

Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds (★★★★★)

The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus (★★★★)

The Boys I've Loved & The End of the World by Catarine Hancock (★★)

Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (★★★★½)

Portrait of my Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing by Topaz Winters (★★★★)

There Should Be Flowers by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (★★★★½)

Grit by Silas Denver Melvin (★★★★½)

Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis (★★★★½)

Wild Embers by Nikita Gill (★★½)

Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara (★★★½)

God I Feel Modern Tonight by Catherine Cohen (★)

Diving Into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich (★★★★★)

Salt by Nayyirah Waheed (★★½)

Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson (★★★★½)

Incarnadine by Mary Szybist (★★★★)

Firstborn by Louise Glück (★★★½)

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire (★★★★)

Mules of Love by Ellen Bass (★★★★½)

What Is This Thing Called Love by Kim Addonizio (★★★★)

New American Best Friend by Olivia Gatwood (★★★★)

At Least This I Know by Andrés N. Ordorica (★★★★½)

Rail by Kai Carlson-Wee (★★★★)

The Asylum Dance by John Burnside (★★★★½)

War of the Foxes by Richard Siken (★★★★)

I Would Leave Me If I Could by Halsey (★★★★)

Bloodsport by Yves Olade (★★★★)

American Melancholy by Joyce Carol Oates (★★½)

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman (No Rating)

[bazrchive]

“I need to never be touched again. I need every human body stacked on top of mine, crushing”

Sweetdark, Savannah Brown