Alina Stefanescu
@aliner
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poet. writer. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. queering the she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
Birmingham, AL
Joined May 2008
Grateful beyond words to Candice Daquin for reviewing my heresies and to @worldlittoday for giving it a home and to @sarabandebooks for publishing the book itself. 🙏❤️
worldliteraturetoday.org
Sarabande Books. 2025. 118 pages.
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Brontez Purnell is still one of the best doing it.
“The tragedy of this night all started when my best friend at the Narcotics Anonymous meeting said, ‘It’s the inauguration today and I’m bummed as fuck—do you want to disassociate?” A new story from Brontez Purnell. https://t.co/UwZrrGrMaD
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One of those perfect moments in a Godard film where the reflective surfaces serve as a bridge that cannot be crossed, completely.
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Is it so simple? Not to listen, is that release? To go into silence alone, becoming that color, grey, The way the drowned leave their names above water. —Laura Mullen https://t.co/E4i1T0Q2vl
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It is dusk. Somewhere is the sound of water,
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Discursively: Yo La Tengo, Elias Canetti, Lesley Stern, Wim Wenders, "the childish panic", airplanes, reverse angles, Cahiers du Cinéma, and the unrealized history of imaginary films. https://t.co/dFUpRInsgr
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“Unselective and completist, the novel has a way of dispersing or engulfing its large preoccupations—addiction, class, poverty—rather than allowing them to emerge distinctly from the story.” @lola_seaton reviews Chris Kraus’s latest novel. https://t.co/SASSTTzL04
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listen to Justin Raden break down how AI/ed tech grift is ruining higher ed https://t.co/DLeVOZvgkq
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Shout out to Lou Reed’s Trans girlfriend/muse Rachel. She inspired some of his best music but was swept under the rug.
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In my day we had to do this by hand, wasting away in the photoshop mines 😞
It's really easy with Gemini to make it look like you got a book deal.
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Ooof this movie. Garrel is a mesmer.
She Spent So Many Hours Under The Sun Lamps by Philippe Garrel, 1985
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"She was almost certain tht noumenon had been the word of the day more than once. - Joy Williams, "The Beach House"
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Coveting, not covering. Even my envy is groomed towards respectability-shaped utterances by this nefarious spellcheck function.
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Just to note: Geoffrey’s long sentences are a marvel. As one who has spent a fair share of hours marveling over them, i would highly recommend this workshop. Covering the luck of those nearby who can register for it.
On January 7th I am leading a workshop on the long sentence at @VPL! Join us as we contemplate the various types and subspecies of long-runners in world literature and try our hands at some of our own. Registration starts on December 8th.
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Wonderful essay by Annie Bolotin on C. D. Wright and "love without optimism," which is to say, the un-pop of love as rendered by Wright in her he/she sequences and dynamic view of relationality. 🖤 The whole @Post_45 issue on Wright is phenomenal. https://t.co/zsVmEBTqGQ
post45.org
“[Poetry] is the one scene where I advance determined, if not precisely ready, to do battle with what an overly cited Jungian described as the anesthetized heart, the heart that does not react.”((C...
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My favorite poet wrote a poem about my favorite poet https://t.co/eX2YMhHePD
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You ready yourselffor the restless transmission. This week: Mr. Wieners.I’ll spread the word. So you turn to supplication,this filial work. Words snaked from the drainon John Street. Wadded, casting...
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