Itaca, Anul XI Nr. 42
Dublin, IrelandApril-June, 2023 Sunflowers of Bucha The sun is bursting with gunfire across the UkraineLooking at Stash’s photos fro the front lineHuge yellow flowers blossom on abandoned tanksGrowing over and
Author: Valery Oisteanu
The Dark Sun of War
The rain falls over the ruins of BahmutTanks, with Z painted on them, burn in the fieldsSilence is a luxury during these battlesWhere every artillery shell equals a casualtyYesterday’s hardened
Cât ai clipi dintr-al treilea ochi
Translated by Nadia Brunstein and published by Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române, Bucaresti, 2023
Here, There and Nowhere
Spuyten Duyvil Publishing Cover Art, analogue collage byRuth Oisteanu The Bleeding Sun The sun rises again over the rooftops of MilanoConfronting the embattled streets of deathTired sun, red, flushed, bleedingBleeding
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in memoriam We ate at Joshua tree in WoodstockWhere you had arrived from New PaltzHeaded for a poetry reading at the Colony CaféPeter the anarchist, the clumsy alchemistAlone, a teacher
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Poetry Performances by Valery Oisteanu