oriana-poetry

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

Sunday, October 16, 2016

LENIN AND DADA; HITLER: MYTH AND MEDIOCRITY; MILOSZ: COMMNUNISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND “HISTORICAL NECESSITY": YAHWEH VERSUS YODA

Mt. Whitney near the summit STILL LIFE CAFÉ Near an exit to Death Valley, next to a rusty two-pump gas station, there used to stand ...

Sunday, October 9, 2016

YOU DON’T HAVE TO HAVE A DREAM; NO CIRCLE OF POETS IN DANTE’S INFERNO; YOU ARE ALREADY NAKED; SURGEONS ARE RED, PSYCHIATRISTS ARE BLUE

E arth photographed from space ** EURYDICE REVISITS LONG BEACH Unendurable, later, this necropolis of love. I recognize even the ra...

Sunday, October 2, 2016

T.S. ELIOT: MARINA; DOSTOYEVSKI ON LOVE, CATHOLICISM AS ROMAN EMPIRE; GALILEO: DANTE’S HELL WOULD COLLAPSE; NO NEED FOR ARCH SUPPORT

MARINA Quis hic locus, quae regio, quae mundi plaga? What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands What water lapping the bow And...

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