Showing posts with label poet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poet. Show all posts

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Stitched Deaths: Christy Brown

(d. Sept. 7, 1981)















Left behind at (or rather, gifted to) Ada Books, Providence, RI

Quote is from the film, My Left Foot.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Monday, March 31, 2014

Stitched Deaths: Meena Kumari

(d. Mar. 31, 1972)

























Pillow left behind in Spectrum India on Thayer Street, Providence, RI.

Quote in Urdu is from a poem written by the Indian actress known as "The Tragedy Queen"
In English it translates to - "Why do you want to listen to my story: Colourless tales of a joyless life"

(Image of Meena Kumari from her Wikipedia page.)

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Stitched Deaths: Sylvia Plath

(d. Feb. 11, 1963)





















Placed in the Evelyn B. Morris Great Room in Eleanor Roosevelt Hall, University of Rhode Island, North Kingstown, RI.

Quote is from the last line of Plath's 'Love-Letter'