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Russian Absurd: Daniil Kharms’s Women (Belated Happy Valentine’s Day!) [by Alex Cigale]
From ON UNIVERSAL BALANCE …And, having returned home, Nikolay Ivanovich said this to his wife:“Do not be afraid, Ekaterina Petrovna, and do not worry. Only there isn’t any equilibrium in this life. And the…
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Alex Cigale, Guest Author February 13-17
This week we welcome Alex Cigale as our guest author. Alex’s own poems in English appear in Colorado Review, The Common Online, and The Literary Review, and his translations of Silver Age and contemporary…
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Hang Down Your Head [by Mitch Sisskind]
That day now lost in antiquity When I heard the Kingston Trio Sing the Ballad of Tom Dooley On the radio for the first time: So different, so new, and I saw How big…
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Daniil Kharms and the Russian Absurdists [by Alex Cigale]
"I can’t imagine why, but everyone thinks I’m a genius; but if you ask me, I’m no genius. Just yesterday I was telling them: Please hear me! What sort of a genius am I?…
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In the Golden Age Gods Walked Among Us (by Mitch Sisskind)
In the Golden Age gods walked among usUntil Olympus levitated beyond sight and,Hopeless of looking up, we began lookingDown into quantum realms of tiny orEven theoretical particles whose reality, So to speak, is neither…
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Love Potions and Bitter Pills [by Alan Ziegler]
a play in one love affair Two people on a bare stage; any combination of genders. (For this version, it’s a man and woman.) They stand in random places throughout the play, changing positions…
