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poems by Michael Heller

presented by Raluca Tanasescu click aici pentru versiunea română   MICHAEL HELLER (b. 1937) is an American objectivist poet, of Jewish and Romanian origins, who has published over twenty volumes of poetry, essays and memoirs. His newest book is This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010. Other recent works include: Eschaton (2009), a book […]

poems by Felino A. Soriano

[from Of these spiraled identities]   XXXVIII   of this stone in-hand or hand-on stone’s relevant belly                                    the soldered speckles of bluegreen asterisks                                    walking from cold onto the warming U-turns

American SF literature in Romania: Ray Bradbury – „Fahrenheit 451”

[translation: Petre Solomon, Paladin Publishing, 2013] (a reader’s guide to fantasy) by Oliviu Crâznic translation from Romanian by Alina-Olimpia Miron   click aici pentru versiunea română     Ray Bradbury (1920-2012… another recent, immense loss for culture) is considered one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He wrote SF literature, „fantasy” literature, […]

Ana Antonescu and the new series of the Anticipaţia (issue 1-6) Collection of SF Short-Stories

(a reader’s guide to fantasy) by Oliviu Crâznic translation from Romanian by Alina-Olimpia Miron   click aici pentru versiunea română   An exceptional phenomenon for the lovers of fantasy literature occurred in the fall of 2012 thanks to Nemira Publishing: the revival of the Anticipaţia Almanac and the magazine Collection of SF Short-Stories (book form, […]

The God of Oblivion

by Patrick Călinescu   Many years ago I decided to stop being a theist. I simply can’t believe in the existence of god. Yesterday I also decided to stop being an atheist. I simply can’t believe in the non-existence of god either.   I know that many think that god is either existence that has […]

The Three Brides Of The Portrait Painter

by Oliviu Crâznic Her eyes of starlight honey, her hair the golden wine, I was to paint her portrait, and then we were to dine; Her body dressed in lilies, all blossomed on her bloom, I said the words, I touched her – the White Bride left the room.   I tried to cope with passion, […]

The Philosophical Porn of Pharcicall P. Doe

by Patrick Călinescu   Would you like to lick the behindness of my ear?   You want me to lick you behind your ear?   Yes, I have a spot in the thereness of the behindness of my ear.   And you want me to make you very horny by licking it till the front […]

The Dark Cosmogony of the Crux

[Şerban Andrei Mazilu, The Angellove Society: Crux, WheelMan Press, 2013] by Ştefan Bolea 1.   Let me start this off by saying that Mazilu’s English is extraordinary – I never felt for a moment that this book was written by a non-native English speaker. I was impressed by the range of his vocabulary and I even […]

Star Wars – Marauder

by Şerban Andrei Mazilu     Chain lightning struck the horizon, over the thick jungle and the untamed wilderness beyond the city walls. Terrible beasts prowled the in darkness, unaffected by the constant electric storms that ravaged Dromund Kaas. Somewhere a slave was being ripped to pieces by a pack of giant reptiles – just […]

School Night

by Şerban Andrei Mazilu     Laine took a drag from her long ivory pipe, enjoying the calming effect of the illegal smoldering herb. Her absinth gaze fell in a melancholic manner over the half-naked body next to her, following the delicate outline of the woman’s marble back and half breast she revealed. She partially […]

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