Eros stricken, Peter Marcus has explored, and fled to and from, some eighty countries, writing poetry that honors the English language wherever he is. His guides are historians, geographers, fallen stars, and other poets. A poet, patient, shrink, he practices in Eden and the twenty-first century. Marcus is touched in the head, soul, and body, blessed, a father of twins: poetry and music. Still he ties himself into and escapes from lyrical stra...
Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920-1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the day Celan was buried.
Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920-1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the day Celan was buried.
Poetry. "HEMISPHERES is bounded by peaks, by images of permanence.... Shulman is not a calculator, but an ecstatic...a contemporary mystic in her impassioned ascent to song"--J.D. McClatchy, The Hudson Review. "I read Grace Shulman's new poems by the light of their own consummation--she is a torch"--Richard Howard.
Plain-spoken and magical, this poet knows how to make imagination and the real world collide softly - a mantra of what is and what is dreamt - that takes into the sacred territory what no ordinary compass can plot or unplot." - Yusef Komunyakaa "Tony Barnstone has no walls. He is alive moment to moment at the naked center. In his shrewd double vision, the animal self and the outside self mingle in ecstasy and grief of flesh. He is so surprisin...