oriana-poetry

poems by American and European poets; book reviews; poetry theory; personal reflections on poetry, the immigrant experience, psychology, religion, mythology, culture

Friday, November 9, 2012

SZYMBORSKA: REVENGE OF A MORTAL HAND?

BEFORE WISDOM That last Polish August that glows like a last ruddy pear in my mind, my mother would point and say, “Take a good look: you ...

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

NDE: THE VIEW FROM THE CARPAL TUNNEL

A ROSE FOR ELLEN Traveler in the dark, hitting broadside a pick-up truck, your last thought a flash like a shooting star: Now at last I’...

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

JUNG IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD

SOMEWHERE IN NOWHERE we sit in his car, meeting in secret even after death. He says, Every three years I burn my diaries to make ...

Sunday, October 7, 2012

KEATS’S NIGHTINGALE AND RILKE’S ANGEL

ANGEL WITH THE SUNDIAL (II) In the storm that rages round the strong cathedral like a denier thinking through and through, your tender smi...

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