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	Good Girl 3.81 avg rating — 885 ratings — published 2025 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry) 4.49 avg rating — 495 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me by Fatimah Asghar (Editor, Contributor), Safia Elhillo (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Aria Aber (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 413 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Aria Aber and 52 other people liked Alwynne's review of Good Girl: "Nila was brought up to believe she had to be “a dokhtare khub, a good girl, in order not to turn into a dokhtare kharab, a broken, bad, ruined, girl.” But at 18, starting college while still reeling from her mother’s recent death, Nila questioned e" Read more of this review »
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Aria Aber and 152 other people liked emma's review of Good Girl: ""a portrait of the artist as a young woman" <3 (review to come / thanks to the publisher for the e-arc)"
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Aria Aber and 59 other people liked Meike's review of Good Girl: "At first, Aber's apparently autofictional debut seems to be a tale as old as time: Hedonistic Berlin party girl takes too much speed at legendary techno club Berghain, sleeps with toxic bois and seeks meaning, the end. If German literature is your ho" Read more of this review »
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Aria Aber and 48 other people liked Ron Charles's review of Good Girl: "What it means to be good — or not — is the infected wound at the center of Aria Aber’s debut novel, “Good Girl.” The narrator is a forlorn young woman named Nila Haddadi, and the story she tells sounds like a howl of despair transposed into the key o" Read more of this review »
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“Writing is an inherently lonely activity. It requires you to be still and present and porous to whatever it is you want to say." -
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“I feed her a spoonful of glass. By morning, she will be a window.”
― Aria Aber, Hard Damage

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“Ich. Ich: far from Auge, the eye. Sounds like licht, which is light, or dicht, which is dense - I, the dense light of my eyeball that strives to look forward only.”
― Aria Aber, Hard Damage

tags: dicht, i, ich, licht, rilke, self

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more