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Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Sep 10

My 3rd poetry collection has dropped. If you preordered (thank you), they should be on their way. If not, you can order it here gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/

The image is a black and white poetry book cover with a blurred person moving on the cover. There are other copies in a box.

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Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ever since my spouse passed away, I have not been posting much. I will soon get back to it. Patience, please.

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Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Aug 14

Excited to announce that my new poetry collection "is(ness)" set for release September 2025. I encourage you to reserve your copy & preorder. This collection offers a unique experience, distinct from my previous works. Secure your copy by preordering today.
gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/

Anne Carson, The Art of Poetry No. 88

Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 28

"[...] this capturing of the surface of emotional fact is useful for other people in that it jolts them into thinking, into doing their own act of understanding." www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5...

“I write to find out what I think about something.”

Hermann Hesse on the Three Types of Readers and the Most Transcendent Form of Reading

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Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 24

"Hesse offers a hierarchical taxonomy predicated on the same sentiment. He outlines three key types, which can similarly coexist within a single reader over the course of a lifetime, [...]".
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“At the hour when our imagination and our ability to associate are at their height, we really no longer read what is printed on the paper but swim in a stream of impulses and inspirations tha…

Shifting the Silence to Find the Meaning: 95-Year-Old Artist, Poet, and Philosopher Etel Adnan on How to Live and How to Die

Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 22

"When we name things simply, with words preceding their meaning, a cosmic narration takes place. Does the discovery of origins remove the dust?" --Etel Adnan (1925-2021).
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“The universe makes a sound — is a sound. In the core of this sound there’s a silence, a silence that creates that sound, which is not its opposite, but its inseparable soul… Silence is…

Bob Kaufman Reading Malvinas Cafe, SF, December 6, 1974 by Horace Washington

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Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 18

"Bob Kaufman Reading Malvinas Cafe, SF, December 6, 1974 by Horace Washington"
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YouTube video by Raymond Foye

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John Ashbery, The Art of Poetry No. 33

Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 17

"I don't think I ever decided on a career as a poet. I began by writing a few little verses, but I never thought any of them would be published or that I would go on to publish books." www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3...

“I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people and sometimes to me too.”

Nathaniel Mackey, The Art of Poetry No. 107

Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 15

"The song does remember the deceased, and it’s the song that helps the deceased move on—to ascend, in the words of the poem, to the next life.[...] apply it to senses of transition [...]." www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7...

“By making breath more evident, more material, more dwelled-upon, they make black breath matter, implicitly insist that black lives matter.”

The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love

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Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 13

"(Donald) Hall considers the secret to the kind of lasting love that blooms between the mundane and the magical." www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/13/d...

“Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.”

Henri Cole, The Art of Poetry No. 98

Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 12

"A confessional poem is more diary-like and confined to the here and now and without much aesthetic dignity." www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6...

“In truth, I’m still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I’d rather say, I make poems.”

W. H. Auden, The Art of Poetry No. 17

Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 11

"To teach creative writing—I think that’s dangerous. [...] —where a poet who was very busy got students to finish his poems for him. Then you’d really be teaching, and you’d be responsible, of course, since the results would go out under the poet’s name." www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3...

On hippies: “What I do like about them is that they have tried to revive the spirit of ‘Carnival.’ But I'm afraid that when they renounce work entirely, the fun turns ugly.”

Gnostic Ironies: New Poetry by Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe - Image Journal

Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 11

"[...] there is something built into our national system, self-destruction, that goes round and round; repetition without progress; evolution of disagreements." imagejournal.org/article/gnos...

Like Mackey, [Howe] is forced to interpret the historical recurrence of evil as cruelly fated; human beings are the unwitting playthings of what she calls, in Manimal Woe, “the mystery of repetition.”

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Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Relearning to Be at Home in Ourselves After Heartbreak

Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 10

"On an archival On Being episode titled “Opening to Our Lives,” mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn reads Walcott’s masterpiece — undoubtedly one of the greatest, most soul-stretching poems ever written." www.themarginalian.org/2015/04/21/l...

“Sit. Feast on your life.”

Waking Up: David Whyte on the Power of Poetry and Silence as Portal to Presence

Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 10

"Poetry interrupts the momentum of story, unweaves the narrative thread with which we cocoon our inner worlds." www.themarginalian.org/2021/04/30/d...

“The object in meditation and all of our contemplative disciplines is silence… in order for you to perceive something other than yourself… Poetry is the verbal art-form by which w…

Jess Walter Eats Breakfast Three or Four Times While Writing (and Other Literary Tidbits)

Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 10

"What part of your writing routine do you think would surprise your readers? (Interviewer)
The sheer number of breakfasts I eat. (Jess Walter)" lithub.com/jess-walters...

Jess Walter’s novel, So Far Gone, is available now from Harper, so we asked him a few questions about writer’s block, writing advice, unexpected routines, and more. * Who do you most wish would rea…

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Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 10

"[...] the zenith of Japanese aesthetics is deeply rooted in the glorious imperfection of the present moment and its relationship to the realities of the past: [...]". www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/28/i...

In Praise of Shadows: Ancient Japanese Aesthetics and Why Every Technology Is a Technology of Thought

“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”

How to Be a Stone: Three Poems for Trusting Time

Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 10

"And although we are “creatures shaped by the planet’s rocky logic,” we are also creatures shaped by the myriad mercies of time, saved over and over by the leap beyond logic that is trusting time." www.themarginalian.org/2025/06/21/s...

If you want to befriend time — which is how you come to befriend life — turn to stone. Climb a mountain and listen to the conversation between eons encoded in each stripe of rock. Walk …

A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith

Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social · Jul 10

"A great many of these company terms originate in one of the first books printed in English after the invention of the Gutenberg Press: the Boke of Seynt Albans [Book of Saint Albans], also known as The Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Blasing of Arms." www.themarginalian.org/2024/01/04/b...

Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other what the world is and what we are, for conveying the blueness of blue and the wonder of being…