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A Prayer Mantis Widowed Black

by Scott Utley   A diva doused in deep scarlet diamonds, black sable and hair electric blue, held her place before me as our elevator fell free from the top of the World Trade Tower. Between heaven and hell, I fell in love. This much I could feel, this much I was sure of. I […]

From the longer sequence “ASIA. PLANETARY RHYTHM MARRIAGES – a graph poem”

[from the MARGENTO collection forthcoming from Casa de Editură Max Blecher] by Margento   click pentru versiunea română     The Euro-Gate MARGENTO Hungry Hell – Romania 1948 after Randall Jarrell     Out of little Paris, as if waking from a dream, into the slammer an empty belly and enigma cell: tomorrow… How long […]

echoes

by Aprilia Zank with a painting by the Syrian artist Nihad Wicho I thought I’d heard a child cry for help when I passed the lake yet, on turning my head all I sensed was snow dust on the frozen mirror we’d take a torch to light our passage through the snow towering the path […]

Observation, 7. Extented.

by Patrick Călinescu edited by Nigel Walker   Outside is the opposite of inside-the exterior is firmly opposed to the interior, it would seem, both linguistically and logically. If the linguistic dichotomy appears to be as fixed as the Aristotelian stars, the logical one, however, may have loosened its grip on this stellar array, which […]

A Case of Historical Embedding

by Patrick Călinescu   All the best ones, when you thought it over, were gay. It was much better to be gay and it was a sign of something too. It was like having immortality while you were still alive. That was a complicated one.

SURformalism

An Aesthetic Fiction a principle and guide to generative dogmatics for performance actions,  performing research, and the redirection of mind powers toward the continuous reassessment  of relevance and value, within the surspecific, universality, and simplicity fields of expressive need. by  Lewis Gesner  

Romanian Fantastic Literature: 2011 awards

(a reader’s guide to fantasy [1]) by Oliviu Crâznic translation from Romanian by Angelica Ţapoca [MTTLC student]   click aici pentru versiunea română   Starting with this issue we will give some special attention to Romanian fantastic literature trying therefore to emphasize the fact that SF, fantasy or horror lovers do not necessarily need to […]

Poems by Fred D’Aguiar

click pentru versiunea română   Golden Shovel Borrowed From Derek Walcott and Gwendolyn Brooks   In that ragbag Calypso down in Trinidad The braggadocio of the frontloaded word, bad, For how good steel drums shaped for pan sound With a Spock-like ear to the wok-burnt ground.

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