ME READING STUFF

"I have also seen doom." -Robinson Jeffers "As you can see, I need to breathe." - Robyn O'Neil LINKS: Buy Robinson Jeffers' Selected Poems Hit up my website www.robynoneil.com

"I think mostly about clothes, sex, food, and seasonal variations. I have done so much to be ordinary and made a record of this: first I was born, next I was a child, then I learned things and did things and loved and had those who loved me and often felt alone. My body was sometimes well, then sometimes unwell. I got nearer to death, as did you." - Anne Boyer  LINKS: Buy Anne Boyer's Garments Aga...

"I have loved too terribly and too much Ever to have any fear of love." - Elsa Gidlow "Indoor plumbing is my favorite invention." - Me LINKS: Buy Elsa Gidlow books HERE!  Poem-a-Day www.robynoneil.com Me on Instagram

boketto - to stare vacantly without doing anything friend - a person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection perfectionist - a person who refuses to accept any standard short of perfection  LINKS: Buy Rest : Why You Get More Done When You Work Less Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS Online Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALS Catalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALS www.robynoneil.com Me...

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.” - Patricia Highsmith "Honestly, same." - Me LINKS: Buy Patricia Highsmith - Her Diaries and Notebooks Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS Online Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALS Catalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALS www.robynoneil.com Me on Instagram

"The post office is a mile away." -Chika Sagawa "Forgive yourself, forgive others, buy those refried beans." - Me LINKS: Buy The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780593230015 Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS here: https://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/191-robyn-o-neil-american-animals-april-28-2022-june-4/overview/ Online Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALS...

"Bury me in wood / And I will splinter / Bury me in stone / And I will quake / Bury me in water / And I will geyser / Bury me in fire / And I'm gonna phoenix" - Bill Callahan "My favorite website is whodatedwho.com" - Me LINKS: Kevin Prufer's website: https://www.kevinprufer.com Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS here: https://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/191-robyn-o-neil-american-animals-apri...

"Take pleasure today in the friend at your side; tomorrow he'll leave, and the joy will die." - Avraham Ibn Ezra LINKS: Buy "The Dream of the Poem" here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691121956/the-dream-of-the-poem Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS here: https://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/191-robyn-o-neil-american-animals-april-28-2022-june-4/overview/ Online Viewing Room...

"I've listened to rain all my life. My hair's white now, and I still don't know night rain on a spring river." - Lu Yu LINKS: More on this book and where to purchase it here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-new-directions-anthology-of-classical-chinese-poetry/?source=search My upcoming show at Susan Inglett Gallery: https://www.inglettgallery.com My website: www.robynoneil.com Me on Instagram: ht...

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Be my coworker. I'd love a bag." - Me LINKS: Check out my source for this week's reading, Christopher Burn's "Poetry Changes Lives": https://www.poetrychangeslives.com/mozarts-funeral-for-his-pet-starling/ Send your question...

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." - Vladimir Nabokov "If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world." - Mark Strand "If you get a stye, you'll know you're not alone." -Me LINKS: Buy Mark Strand's C...

"That I am alive is no more than an endless rumor." - Choi Seungja "You don't want an ombre hairstyle on your teeth." - Me p.s. I have an ombre hairstyle on my teeth LINKS: More on Choi Seungja and "Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me" here: https://actionbooks.org/choi-seungja-phone-bells/ More on Stephanie Goehring here: https://hostpublications.com/products/from-the-water-inaudible-by-stephanie-goe...

"For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes." - Robert Creeley "I will not use my mid-stream urine; I will go to the drug store." - Me LINKS: Robert Creeley's "A Day Book: Tuesday, November 19, 1968": https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-day-book_robert-creeley/1408332/item/2488639/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAuP-OBhDqARIsAD4XHpdlixwlnKU5CcaAS7Kq8stZOC_t5pTdq5HlIFK-mhVIgVsBc5Q5vdUaAp...

"Pueblo, Concrete, Maniac" - Me LINKS: Buy The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552503/the-secret-lives-of-color-by-kassia-st-clair/ Purchase the new 10" single "Take Your Time" by Damien Jurado here: https://damienjurado.bigcartel.com/product/take-your-time-limited-edition-10-single Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=...

"Dear Everyone, Let me disappoint you." - Sort of Jameson O'Hara Laurents, sort of me.  LINKS: Buy Medaeum by James O'Hara Laurens here: https://henrymiller.org/2016/11/01/announcing-the-publication-of-medaeum-by-jameson-ohara-laurens/ Listen to "Once Upon a Time at Bennington College": http://www.lilianolik.com/once-upon-a-time-at-bennington-college Warm your mug: https://www.mrcoffee.com/accesso...

"I like ancient Chinese poetry." - Graham Burnam "I'd like to publish a Graham Burnam book of poetry." - Me LINKS: D.W. Burnam's work: https://www.instagram.com/d.w._burnam/ Dawn Cerny's work: https://www.instagram.com/cerny_studio/ Everyman's Pocket LIbrary's Solitude: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781400044238 Buy my Lion shirt at Inman Gallery here: https://inman-gallery.square.site/product/...

"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting." - Marlene Dietrich "If there is a supreme being, he's crazy." - Marlene Dietrich LINKS: Buy Mason Currey's "Daily Rituals: Women at Work" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/604080/daily-rituals-women-at-work-by-mason-currey/9781524732950?ref=PRHB7BD76FBDB&aid=14813&linkid=PRHB7BD76FBDB Buy my Lion shirt at Inman Gallery here: https:...

“Tennessee Williams choked to death on the plastic cap of a nasal spray.” - David Markson "I didn't breathe well today. You could hear me breathing too much." - Me LINKS: Buy "This is Not a Novel" at your local independent bookstore: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781619027145 Buy my Lion shirt at Inman Gallery here: https://inman-gallery.square.site/product/robyn-o-neil-yong-kiang-hotel-lion-t-...

"What I've aimed for as a translator is transparency, but in pieces, like high small windows in a tall room that let in only moving fragments of the picture of the sky." - Janet Hendrickson "Uhhhhh Sebastián, lions ARE cool." - Me LINKS: Buy Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language here: https://bookshop.org/books/treasure-of-the-castilian-or-spanish-language/9780811228602 Buy Dave Eggers's "...

"Perhaps two in a thousand people like poetry." - Wislawa Szymborska “There’s a lot to think about isn’t there?” -Mr Rogers LINKS: Buy Wislawa Szymborska's "Here" here: https://bookshop.org/books/here-9780547592091/9780547592091 Buy "The Every" by Dave Eggers with my drawings on the cover here: https://electric-works.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-every-by-dave-eggers-robyn-oneil...

“He who cannot howl will not find his pack.” - Charles Simic "...unusual feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment, unexpected and more abiding than usual." - Joseph Cornell  LINKS: Buy Charles Simic's Dime-Store Alchemy here: https://www.nyrb.com/products/dime-store-alchemy-1?variant=1094929469 Order my 2021 Headstone Greeting Cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/cardsandstickers Me on Instagr...

"If you only knew from what rubbish Poetry grows, knowing no shame." - Anna Akhmatova "You don't need friends everybody. Just have fun with yourself." - Me  LINKS: Buy The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780939010271 Order your greeting cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/cardsandstickers Buy a ME READING STUFF shirt or sweatshirt to support The Trevor Pr...

She stabbed Clint Eastwood. She can make one tear run down her right cheek on command. I made a chef salad and don't take care of myself well anymore.  LINKS: Buy "Always Young and Restless: My Life On and Off America's #1 Daytime Drama" here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781635766943 Order your greeting cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/cardsandstickers My website: www.robynoneil.com Me...

"Everything has its story." - A.L. Snijders "I'm a soap opera scholar." - Me LINKS: Buy Night Train by A.L. Snijders here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/night-train/ Register for my lecture here: https://finearts.wsu.edu/event/robyn-oneil-virtual-artist-talk/ Visit my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop Support The Trevor Project by buying ME READING STUFF shirts here: https://cottonbureau.c...

"Read, read, read, read, read. Those who read own the world; those who immerse themselves in the Internet or watch too much television lose it. If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker. Our civilization is suffering profound wounds because of the wholesale abandonment of reading by contemporary society." - Werner Herzog LINKS: Buy Werner Herzog's Conquest of the Useless here (ON SALE!): ht...