Buffistas.org
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.

Mal ,'Ariel'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

Discussion Threads

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

First Previous Next Last Recent
Sue - Jun 20, 2008 10:25:48 am PDT #6499 of 28378
hip deep in pie

How could I forget Anna Akhmatova: 

last toast

here’s to the ruin of this house
to the villainies we do
to our coupled severance
here’s to you

to the lies lips issue forth
to the cold weather of your eyes
to the world’s being dumb and coarse
to the god who let us die

DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 10:27:02 am PDT #6500 of 28378
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

How could I forget Anna Akhmatova:

Russians know how to bring the bleak.

sj - Jun 20, 2008 10:27:16 am PDT #6501 of 28378
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

There's about a hundred poems in here, so I'm not going to list it all. Some examples are, "One Night" by Umberto Saba, "Night of Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud, "Ballad of One Doomed to Die" by Frederico Garcia Lorca, and "The Cross of Snow" by Longfellow.

Sue - Jun 20, 2008 10:31:46 am PDT #6502 of 28378
hip deep in pie

Russians know how to bring the bleak.

I do think she is bleak more than goth. But she has some great dark love poems. None of which I can find online.

Sue - Jun 20, 2008 10:33:48 am PDT #6503 of 28378
hip deep in pie

Rimbaud! Of course!

Another by Anna: 

Wild honey has the scent of freedom,
dust--of a ray of sun,
a girl's mouth--of a violet,
and gold--has no perfume.




Watery--the mignonette,
and like an apple--love,
but we have found out forever
that blood smells only of blood.

Steph L. - Jun 20, 2008 10:45:33 am PDT #6504 of 28378
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Just reading the setup for Lucia di Lammermoor sounds goth as all get out:

's why I recommended it. I might not *be* goth, but I know it when I see it.

Toddson - Jun 20, 2008 11:01:44 am PDT #6505 of 28378
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

In this vein (so to speak) I grabbed some vampire books at a big book sale ($2 for hardcovers! .50 for paperbacks!) - The Vampire of New York by ... someone-or-other Hunt and the first of the Danny Valentine books. Also one called The Vampire and the Cowboy (seriously - how could I resist?).

Atropa - Jun 20, 2008 11:02:13 am PDT #6506 of 28378
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Now I want to go home, sit in a shady spot in my back yard, and re-read vampire books.

Toddson - Jun 20, 2008 11:02:32 am PDT #6507 of 28378
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Also - isn't there an opera of The Fall of the House of Usher?

DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 12:10:28 pm PDT #6508 of 28378
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Whoa, wacky synchronicity. Lucia di Lammermoore just opened in San Francisco yesterday.

I do seem to recall a House of Usher Opera, now that you mention it, Todd.

First Previous Next Last Recent