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
Poems by A.J. Huffman
Stale Hearts Drifting Apart This is what happens when silk turns to stone. This cold.
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 […]