Black Dog
by Gabriel Tocu My dog flattens ecosystems he brings nuclear winter nights long and empty to the xanax cities
Little Things On God
by Patrick Călinescu cliquez ici pour la version française Stephen Hawking’s argument against God is strikingly similar to the traditional cosmological argument for the existence of God. Both sides rely on the concept of causality when investigating God. Both sides understand the concept of causality in quite the same way. Basically, both […]
Poems by Patrick Călinescu
click aici pentru versiunea română A Kosmogony intensity outstretched to explosibility comes full circle into the incipit of fire begging to be kindled out of the initial spark
On Suicide
by Patrick Călinescu The sum of all self-inflicted deaths is called suicide. All these self-inflicted deaths are the assuming forms of suicide—the forms that the phenomenon of suicide has traditionally been molded into. But one, all of them will prove to be just impure casts of suicide. Anyway, I won’t be getting ahead of […]
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 […]
Observation, 13.
(from atheism to agnosticism and back) [III] invited contribution by Patrick Călinescu edited by Nigel Walker followed by a comment by Ştefan Bolea click aici pentru versiunea română I don’t believe in God. I have no faith in the divine. However, I can’t label myself as an atheist, either. That would be too […]
Ambivalence in the Concept of Utopia
by Diana Zavaţchi The ambivalent nature of the concept of utopia lies in the existence of two essential perspectives, a traditional one sustaining the emergence of a perfect model as a utopian structure that is hardly possible to reach, and a modern one involving the association of utopia with progress. Utopianism as a philosophical […]
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 […]