Goldsmith Market
". . . full of known earthly places like the Sahara, ‘Old Russia,’ and Heathrow Airport, jumbled together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle map of the world. Art, artifacts, things, and people partake of each other’s humanity and objecthood. Yet there is nothing of the dispassionate butterfly-pinner about: these objects are sympathetically alive, parts of an encompassing order, like Marianne Moore’s ‘Nine Nectarines’ . . . these poems are unlike any I’ve ever read: deep, beautiful, and...
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New Romanian Poetry.
Translator's PrefacePortrait2Story in the Mirror4Face to Face with Reality6A Day in Winter8Vieux Jeu10Sample12Poem for a Leaf That Sprouted Roots14Circuit16Mirror Games18They Eye of Lynceus20A Moment Below Ground22Daybreak24A Stop26Hotel Room28The Most Beguiling Siren30Snapshot32Snapshot34Nocturne36Traps38Autumn40Acorn and Sleep42"Hermitage Cherries"44Tableaux in Motion46Sketch50An Unimportant Moment52Rain, and from the Fjords Comes the Scent of Blackberries54Nocturnal Solidarity56Journey58The Gift60Alone with Spectators62The Last Night of the Year64Snapshot66The Poet Rests68The Song of the Snake Charmer72Landmarks74Rain in Sienna76Crash Landing78Archeological Incursion80I Laugh at the Immortals82In the House where the Hyacinth Blooms Twice84The Olives have Blossomed on Lesbos86Song for the Spice Seller88#5 Mint Street90From the Secret History of the Astronomers92In Perugia, Another Artist has Committed Suicide94Another Balancing Act96In the Fjord, in the Bloom98The Procession100Balance at Last102Song104Goldsmith Market108Biography110Flowers for the Pyre112The Fire Ritual114From the Life of an Artist116Tuesday118Merchant of Frames and Mirrors120To Revive a Limb Gone Numb122Friday124(Oh, Just to Salvage)126The Age of the Blackbird128Song130Vocation132The Line134Do You Know What I See Now?136In the Night When Blood Is a Desolate Beach138Poem for the Vanilla Blossom140The Winter Salon142The Hunting Lesson144Initiation in Astronomy146Daughter of Athena148Ruby Song150Address152To the Tower154Song156I March158Winter Dream160From the Wild162Paint Your Blood164Scene with Poet166Cosmic Microguide168Fugue for an Abandoned Organ170Revelation172Into a Painting with Frozen Borders174Shadows176Poem with Griffin, Pike and Peacock178In the Town that was180Traces182Astral Stream184
