In the greyness and drizzle of one despondent dawn unstirred by harbingers of sunbreak a vulture perching high on broken bones of a dead tree…. vultures/chinua achebe was last modified: August 21st, 2009 by andres alfaro
Aug 212009
Richard Poirier
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Aug 192009
Richard Poirier, a prolific and populist cultural critic who founded a literary journal, Raritan: A Quarterly Review, and who was a founder of Library of America, the nonprofit publisher of American classics, died in Manhattan on Saturday. He was 83. Richard Poirier was last modified: August 19th, 2009 by andres […]
Oretta Dalle Ore
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Aug 192009
Let’s look for a different idea of art of music, living, living together, reliving…………. Oretta Dalle Ore was last modified: August 19th, 2009 by andres alfaro
Aug 172009
The harrowing winds of the morning sweep through villages both old and new…………. Skewed Perspectives by Andrés Alfaro was last modified: August 17th, 2009 by andres alfaro
Mario Meléndez
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Aug 142009
Beyond the guitar the blood is sketching out a violent music and the singer’s head is filled with holes and with kisses that smell of death Mario Meléndez was last modified: August 14th, 2009 by andres alfaro
Julio Cortázar/The Continuity of Parks
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Aug 112009
HE HAD BEGUN TO READ THE NOVEL a few days before. He had put it aside because of some urgent business Julio Cortázar/The Continuity of Parks was last modified: August 11th, 2009 by mahnaz badihian
Alejandro Mendez
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Aug 112009
Alejandro Mendez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1965. 41 years I will stop myself there to make a toast with the strange golem of light Alejandro Mendez was last modified: August 11th, 2009 by andres alfaro
Aug 102009
With a few simple words he said “I hope you’re not tired my love” And I was so happy that someone understood my weariness it felt like a sugar cube melting in my heart. The Ancient Mustache Hair / Mahnaz Badihian (oba) was last modified: August 10th, 2009 by andres […]
Lebogang Mashile
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Aug 092009
I wore you I wore you today Like a raggedy coat For the feel of how warm it used be …. Mashile won the 2006 Noma Award for her poetry collection, In a Ribbon of Rhythm. Lebogang Mashile was last modified: August 9th, 2009 by mahnaz badihian
I wanted to say that I have not been martyred, yet! by XXX
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Jul 292009
No! it’s not like I am craving to be martyred nor do I have an itch to experience the injustice center of Evin prison. No! how can I say it? for example it was the day after Sohrab was martyred when my mom asked us to go to his mom’s […]