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Romanian Derangement Condensing and suppressing eternityNearby an old champagne factory,Instability of identityIn an old age home of the Jewish community.Exploding multiple vulnerability of guilt and alienating absurdityThese are the hazardous
Outside Timeto Gellu Naum @ 100 The temptations of St. NaumJust one of those things, an apparitionNext life misery wrapped in “hypotheticals”Defeated by passion but un-subdued by destinyNaum, keeper of
Perks [in Purgatory] is lush and rococo, a surreal stream-of-consciousness, grapholalic, damn-all set of raw reflections by a poet who’s been around the cultural block, who has seen things, thought
I’m so excited to have your new book! When I read your poetry, it’s always in your voice. You have the most dramatic, passionate delivery and I hear that in
Like fine wine, I am reading your poems in Anarchy for a Rainy day slowly. I am traveling the globe with you, walking streets, dancing with dead poets, surviving fires.
Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, Vol 2, Issue 2 (2008) Poetic coincidence? UnlikelyYou were born three days after me, September 7th, 1943The artsy-Virgos have a special role in art
Contramundum Press Guest Curator: Valery Oisteanu Essays, Poetry & Translations curated by Valery Oisteanu
May 24th, 2013Theater for the New City, NYC Poetry by Valery Oisteanu
Poetry by Valery Oisteanu
A Small Giant Dies, Leaving for Dreamtime The night I visited Victoria Art Center I lingered too long in the galleries devoted to Aboriginal art. As the galleries closed, I