/lit/ - Literature

>What is the highest artform?
suicide. /thread

>History is filled to the brim with pain and suffering
>Violence between states, clans, and people is the norm, rather than the exception
>Even during peace, the vast majority of humanity lives in squalor and brutal poverty
>Even the few "Happy Endings" in history are wiped away in as little as a single generation when the next war or famine or plague hits

History books that will help me get over this depression?

>>9165653
Well first of all I need a better grasp at the language without having my head filled with metaphors and flowery romance hip-hop lyrics from 100 years ago.
I'm kidding, I like poetry but I really do want to have a better grasp at the flow of the language so to speak, how people read, speak and write it, but within literature.
And second of all I think there's hidden gems within the romanian canon, purely based on my limited knowledge of it. Read some folk tales and Ion Creanga, there's dope stuff there methinks.

Where can I find death poems? (As in poems written by samurais before committing seppuku?)

>>5352926
>mfw

>>5352936
nigga it's in the post
ULL, Universtiy of Louisiana at Lafayette
I found out the other day that Ernest Gaines was a professor here and sometimes gives creative writing seminars so that's cool I guess.