This is simply me reading stuff. "Stuff" being poems and literature and essays and letters. And I'm also talking and praising and laughing and almost crying and hating and living and dying and loving and some other stuff. I try to keep this under 20 minutes because I have a deep fear of boring people.
"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 BoyerLINKS:Buy Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women HERE.www.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram
"I have loved too terribly and too much Ever to have any fear of love." - Elsa Gidlow"Indoor plumbing is my favorite invention." - MeLINKS:Buy Elsa Gidlow books HERE!Poem-a-Daywww.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram
boketto - to stare vacantly without doing anythingfriend - a person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affectionperfectionist - a person who refuses to accept any standard short of perfectionLINKS:Buy Rest : Why You Get More Done When You Work LessInfo on my show AMERICAN ANIMALSOnline Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALSCatalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALSwww.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram
“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 NotebooksInfo on my show AMERICAN ANIMALSOnline Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALSCatalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALSwww.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram
"The post office is a mile away." -Chika Sagawa "Forgive yourself, forgive others, buy those refried beans." - MeLINKS:Buy The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780593230015Info 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: https://www.inglettgallery.com/viewing-room/42-robyn-o-neil-american-animals/Catalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALS: https://en.calameo.com/susan-inglett-gallery/read/006031000dd8300a9821f?pagefxopacity=0My website: www.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/
"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" - MeLINKS:Kevin Prufer's website: https://www.kevinprufer.comInfo 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: https://www.inglettgallery.com/viewing-room/42-robyn-o-neil-american-animals/Catalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALS: https://en.calameo.com/susan-inglett-gallery/read/006031000dd8300a9821f?pagefxopacity=0My website: www.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/
"Take pleasure today in the friend at your side; tomorrow he'll leave, and the joy will die." - Avraham Ibn EzraLINKS:Buy "The Dream of the Poem" here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691121956/the-dream-of-the-poemInfo 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: https://www.inglettgallery.com/viewing-room/42-robyn-o-neil-american-animals/Catalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALS: https://en.calameo.com/susan-inglett-gallery/read/006031000dd8300a9821f?pagefxopacity=0My website: www.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/
"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 YuLINKS:More on this book and where to purchase it here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-new-directions-anthology-of-classical-chinese-poetry/?source=searchMy upcoming show at Susan Inglett Gallery: https://www.inglettgallery.comMy website: www.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Erin Whitehead's Instagram: @girlwithatail
“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." - MeLINKS: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 questions to: info@robynoneil.comMy website: www.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/
“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." -MeLINKS:Buy Mark Strand's Collected Poems: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/236122/collected-poems-by-mark-strand/Buy Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/236122/collected-poems-by-mark-strand/Send your questions to: info@robynoneil.comMy website: www.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/