Poetry of Gonzalinho da Costa

My June 9, 2018 post about Sappho relates that of her estimated 10,000 lines of lyric poetry, most of what is extant exists only in fragment...

  Bather (2008) by Nicola Beattie

  SAILING Swiftly I sail the perfect blue water, slicing through the sea. Clouds charged with electricity fill broad sky vistas. At night I ...

AFTER BASH Ō Chalk white moon, a disc of pooling light. Round old pond, stillness unruffled, Bird tucked inward. Behind Embankment of clouds...

The Book of Exodus tells us that Moses was so enraged when he beheld the golden idol of the Israelites that he burned it in fire, ground it ...

MODERN HISTORY Shakespeare’s plays describe about 155 deaths, less than half onstage, involving 13 suicides, 33 stabbings, seven poisonings,...

“Mercy presupposes an unequal relationship between those who give mercy and those who receive it, because to be merciful is to give what ...