Articles tagged " Poland"
The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest
How did you find yourself here, poor mummy of an Egyptian princess, exposed to alien stares? Now it is here you have your afterlife. I myself am a part of it for a moment, while I'm looking at you.…...
PRODUCT IV (Love and Death)
An anthologist from Berlin asks me for poems new or recognized: ideally, they should amplify the union of love and death. I'd like to suit her, since I'm dying, but love is a master from outer…...
Tiresias’s Farewell
From unexpiated sins poems are born. That's why you sent down thickening darkness on my eyes. A spiral staircase carries me to countries under the earth - republics of shadow, kingdoms of grayness.…...
Calypso
The sea's color is green. The white sand is stained with blood. An old woman dies at the diner, underfed, under prepared. The telephone only takes phone cards. Some people are hard to recognize, even…...
A Stone from New World
Only when I turned it over on its other side did I see that the heavy sandstone circle which looked like the top half of a mill, grindstone or the top of a well, had been taken from an old Jewish tombstone.…...
Closer
Remember the very first time you did it tough wasn't the word. Turning the key, a sudden boardful of lights and music swelling behind our backs and acts of attention, you'd think the clothes would…...
from Snow White and Russian Red
Magda comes in, but without Eric. She looks like something's happened, like she's been shattered into little pieces, her hair this way, her handbag that way, her dress to the left, her earrings…...
Witold Gombrowicz, and to Hell with Culture
Witold Gombrowicz is probably the most important twentieth-century novelist most Western readers have never heard of, which is to say that he is the kind of writer whose following consists largely of other…...
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