“Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.” WorldWritingFirstsHeartBeautifulEvilReadingLinesTreeStrangeBabyPagesDevilPopsGorgeousSpillingBombshellsBest Poem Author:Zachary Schomburg
“Every time I caught a fish, I wondered how something so small could have such clear, pure strength. It kept reminding me of another sensation, from another realm. The fish on the line, I eventually realized, felt like the baby, kicking inside you. Or the shocking, life-hungry pull of the baby on the breast. Perhaps fishing is like quickening for men, a long and patient wait for a few electric moments when they feel connected to another life.” MenFeelsLongMomentsFeltWaitingLinesClearBabyPurePatientCaughtFishesConnectedHungryRealmsBreastsFishingSensationsElectricShockingKickingRemindingAnother LifeQuickening Author:Marni Jackson
“I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.” LongStoriesIndividualVoiceCommunityLinesBloodStyleCryBabySittingMedicineBonesWideBreadHipsKneesBreastsChairsTouchingPlasticLapSkirtsRobustClansLatinaLong LinesHungariansPocketbooksLatina Women Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Cry Baby is about Cry Baby and the next album [which I think I have a title for but I don't wanna say anything yet because I don't know and it's too early] is a place in the weird town that I'm trying to create and its Cry Baby's perspective throughout this album. You're not learning about her, you're learning about the place that she's in and her perspective. Down the line for sure I will think of other characters in this world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldTryingCharacterNextLinesCryThis WorldPerspectiveBabyTownsAlbumsTitlesSay AnythingCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.” IfsWayHumansMayChildrenMotherParentLinesPowerfulRaceFourGenerationsBabyMembersDecidedInfiniteInstinctParentingIncomeInevitableHuman RaceMother NatureDisposableMargaritaBaby Boom Book:The World According to Dave Barry Source: The World According to Dave Barry
“Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of their skulls and feeling depressed, then being consoled by some little thing like watching the patterns the light makes through the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the sidewalks. I remember the line from that poem now. Downward to darkness, on extended wings.” PeopleLittlesFeelingsLightBeautifulRememberFallLinesDarknessLaughingTreeBabyTerribleShadowWingsFalling In LovePatternsArguingBoredLittle ThingsCastingSkullsSidewalkHaving A BabyBeing BoredFeeling Depressed Author:Kim Addonizio
“Me, Polly Garter, under the washing line, giving the breast in the garden to my bonny new baby. Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. And where's their fathers live, my love? Over the hills and far away. You're looking up at me now. I know what you're thinking, you poor little milky creature. You're thinking, you're no better than you should be, Polly, and that's good enough for me. Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?” ThinkingKnowsGivingShouldLittlesEnoughFatherGrowsLinesPoorBabyTerribleCreaturesGardenHillsBreastsGood EnoughThank GodFar AwayTerrible ThingsWashingBetter Than YouNew BabyGarters Author:Dylan Thomas
“The world is always ending for someone. It’s a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says it to his wife. ‘The world is always ending for someone,’ he says. She is trying to quieten the baby, and does not hear him. I doubt that it would matter if she did.” IfsWorldGivingTryingChildrenDoeMatterFatherLinesDoubtWifeBaby Author:Neil Gaiman
“Want to come back to the morgue with me after lunch? (Tate) I shudder at the thought of the pickup line you must have used the night you met LaShonda. Come with me, baby, and see my collection of stiffs. (Simone)” WantUsedNightLinesBabyMetsCollectionsLunchPickupsMorguesPickup Line Book:Dream Chaser Source: Dream Chaser