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Lisa

the first-person spectacular

About Me

Usually referred to as the the girl who got away

My Interests

sleep masks, books, shoes, trains, letters, taxis, kristyn, first kisses, and dancing with strangers

I'd like to meet:

the henry to my anais

Music:

playlists.

Movies:

winners.

Books:

Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller), The Loop trilogy by Chuck Rosenthal, The History of Love (Nicole Krauss), In the Bedroom (Andre Dubus), Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides), The Invention of Solitude (Paul Auster), A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole), Queen for a Day (Denise Duhamel), old Bill Knott poems,
What Narcissism Means to Me (Tony Hoagland),
The Safety of Objects (A.M. Homes),
A Crime in the Neighborhood (Suzanne Berne),
Is 5 (e.e. cummings),
The Lover (Marguerite Duras),
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry,
To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee),
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith),
Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky),
Of Love and Other Demons (Garcia-Marquez),
The Kiss (Kathryn Harrison),
A Carnivore's Inquiry (Sabina Murray),
any story by Raymond Carver,
this one story by ZZ Packer,
The Berlin Stories (Cristopher Isherwood),
Like Water For Chocolate (Laura Esquival),
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino),
Lust and Other Stories (Susan Minot),
The End of the Affair (Graham Greene)

Heroes:

On heroes vs. heroines:Kristyn said, "Yeah. Why are girls a drug that kills people and guys get to be a really good sandwich?"

My Blog

FINALLY!

I've been taking that damn sex test on and off for two years now, and I finally seem to have evolved out of "ghengis khunt" (I mean, for christ's sake), and into someone much more acceptable: The...
Posted by Lisa on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:39:00 PST

My favorite Denise Duhamel poem

EgoI just didn't get it--even with the teacher holding an orange (the earth) in one handand a lemon (the moon) in the other, her favorite student (the sun) standing behind her with a flashlight.I just...
Posted by Lisa on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:58:00 PST

My favorite Bill Knott poem

it's not the best Bill Knott poem...just my favorite one.xoxo(POEM) (CHICAGO) (1967)If you remember this poem after reading itPlease go to Lincoln Park the corner of Dickens Street and sitOn the bench...
Posted by Lisa on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:53:00 PST

My brother

The book's coming out in April, y'all. Buy it and love.BachelorhoodArgument--hostile sex--burgeoning dread:Phoebe said, Box me at Connacht's Irish baragain, love. But all my brilliant crack was felds...
Posted by Lisa on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:05:00 PST

I clipped this poem out of the new yorker when I was in high school and I just found it again.

I am too close for him for him to dream about meI am too close for him to dream about me.I'm not flying over him, not fleeing himunder the roots of trees. I am too close.Not with my voice sings the fi...
Posted by Lisa on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:06:00 PST

I'm psyched on Frank O'Hara again. Thanks, Sef!

Meditations In An Emergency Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religiousas if I were French?Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous(and how the same names k...
Posted by Lisa on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:17:00 PST

Okay then.

Read My ResultTake the Testghengis khunt...how amazing is that?...
Posted by Lisa on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:10:00 PST

Manhattan I Will Conquer You

that is all.
Posted by Lisa on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:14:00 PST

Holidays Part 1

While I always know I'm lucky to live in New York, I never feel more so than when Christmas nears and I have a legitimate reason to visit the Pearl River Mart down on Broadway.  People in other g...
Posted by Lisa on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:06:00 PST