Miklos Legrady
On the Corruption of Canadian Art
Notes Before a Revolution
In 1947 statistician R.A. Fischer was invited to give a series of talks on BBC radio about the nature of science and scientific investigation. His words are as …
In 1947 statistician R.A. Fischer was invited to give a series of talks on BBC radio about the nature of science and scientific investigation. His words are as …
Socially, disclosure has an inevitable impact upon the literary scene of a historical period because social ideas and perceptions constitute a significant portion of human identity – either of the writer or reader, or of each …
(excerpts from new manuscript)
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zimmer dreihundertundfünfzig
from what scattered river basin
does the weser drink
what gravity
at the pumps
with tap root
in hannoversch …
French Republic (FR): Just now, Poe’s raven threw itself blackly
gainst the window.
Its wings curdled the grey, noon light.
Kingdom of Portugal (KP): A grim sign!
Psychopaths love their slaughters
as much …
Dawn
dressed in white
she lingered by the doorway
hanging to the knob with a gentle sway
as the sun walked through the
doors of the east lighting up her eyes
dressed in white
her …
My mother loves Saint Anthony,
the patron of lost things,
including me who came back
after years of exile in the West.
You’re still the same, she said.
Like all sons …
No choice but to bludgeon it from crow
to carcass with its head at that angle,
dark feathered dangle, hard blunt blow
to sever the soft neck’s hang, quell
the strange strain of pain broken
bones made. …
Hear, the props here they’re all wrong
And I’m possessed or I am cursed
But I got you in my scene
Say, my mattress it is hunger
My blanket it is thirst
You lie so sweetly in …
My mother and father, Greta and Jan, had two small children – one and four years old respectively – when the German army invaded the country on May 10, 1940. Under German occupation, Dutch society needed …