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The Fresh Eyes of the First Antichristian

(from atheism to agnosticism and back) [IV] by Ştefan Bolea click aici pentru versiunea română   “I want to die in a tavern, where wine is close to the mouth of the dying man.” (Carmina burana)   I bought Minois’s newly translated book into English for my birthday: Georges Minois, The Atheist’s Bible: The Most […]

Halfway to Toledo

[homage to El Greco and Nikos Kazantzakis] by Martin Burke   From REPORT TO GRECO by NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS (1) Not night, not yet, yet I gather sight and speech to speak against the dark; night’s-owl that I am watchful from tree-branch and turret or battle-steeple; non-neutral observer, partisan of that radiant dark deeper than night […]

Poems by Marc Vincenz

click aici pentru versiunea română Continuum   (previously published in Altered Scale in the original English)   We multiply best              in open bodies                           with low mass indices              swarm and flock cluster and conjoin

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 […]

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 […]

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