10 songs I can only listen to on repeat, paired (for no particular reason) with 10 poems I memorized because I love them so much:
- “Jupiter” by Aoife O’Donovan &
“The Necklace,” by Osip Mandelstam, trans. Christian Wiman
~ - “Drawn to the Blood,” by Sufjan Stevens &
“Don’t Worry,” by Mary Oliver
~ - “Familiarity,” by Punch Brothers &
“What Are Years?,” by Marianne Moore
~ - “Death in His Grave,” by John Mark McMillan &
“From Blossoms,” by Li-Young Lee
~ - “Angela,” by The Lumineers &
“The Ache of Marriage,” by Denise Levertov
~ - “Everything to Hide,” by Sarah Jarosz &
“Romanesque Arches,” by Tomas Transtromer, trans. Robin Fulton
~ - “Cancion de la Noche,” by Matthew Perryman Jones &
“Book of Hours 1, 59,” by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Barrows & Macy
~ - “Egg Shells,” by Brooke Waggoner &
“Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord,” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
~ - “Human,” by Daughter &
“Anything Can Happen,” bySeamus Heaney
~ - “Conrad,” by Ben Howard &
“Otherwise,” by Jane Kenyon