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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
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
Translated by Nadia Brunstein and published by Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române, Bucaresti, 2023 Reviews Itaca (Dublin, Ireland)Romanian Diaspora Magazine Editor/Author, Emanuel Pope (England) Once, in the olden days, there circulated
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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Itaca, Dublin, 2022 Romanian translation by Nadia Brunstein
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
American Book Review, Vol. 43, No. 1, Spring 2022 by Allan Graubard Valery Oisteanu—poet, performer, artist and art critic— has led quite a life. Born in Russia in 1943, he
Volume 33, Summer 2022 The Peace Enigma of Stillness Herds of trees stumble out in the distanceWailing in a low undertoneSome falling towards the skyBurning with the speed of an