“How quickly we exile the truth of love from the love of truth.”
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Richard Jackson, from “The Rivers,” The Heart as Framed: New and Selected Poems (Press 53, 2022)
“Sevginin hakikatini nasıl da çabucak ayırıyoruz hakikatin sevgisinden.”
Yani diyor ki gerçek sevgi hakikatin sevgisinden (doğruluğa bağlılıktan) ayrılamaz. Ama genelde şöyle düşünmeye meyilliyiz: “Doğruyu bildiğim halde ona uygun davranamam. Eğer doğruyu söylersem dışlanırım (dokuz köyden kovulurum), daima doğruya bağlı kalırsam zarar görürüm, yoksa ben iyi biriyim ve gerçek sevgiyi hak ediyorum.” Hayır, etmiyorsun.
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
Zaire, 1987
Chris Steele-Perkins
Feelings unspoken are unforgettable. Nostalghia (1983) Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
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Welcome. As I am figuring how to go about freelance writing, I want to partially support myself with Patreon. What you will get from me are weekly essays on Black pop culture/Black female sexuality/Black radicalism, long form essays on any of the aforementioned subjects and the occasional poem. I want to use Patreon as a platform to launch my writing and eventually photography and ink drawing.
Hieronymus Bosch - Scenes from the Passion of Christ, Reverse of Painting “Saint John the Evangelist”. 1489
Shadow, Osaka, Photo by Daido Moniyama, 1995
Girls in the garden at “Orphan City,” an enormous orphan refugee camp of more than 30,000 children managed by Near East Relief in Alexandropol (modern Gyumri, formerly Leninakan), Armenia, circa 1920.
Black Girl (1966)