Tag: prose

  • Transverse threads; two women poets and Homer

    The weft of  Margaret Atwood‘s The Penelopiad is contained in and revealed through the chorus voiced by the twelve maids  hung by Telemachus (on Odysseus’ orders) just after the men returned from their manly adventures. Margaret Atwood runs the chorus line throughout her Penelopiad, the executed maids sing their songs at ten intervals in the book. I was…

  • Poems from ‘Mindskin’ by Antonella Zagaroli

    from Fan-Locked (2001-2004) The sun embroiders the hinges on the door Fan-locked the woman with the curdled breast mirrors the colours one by one mortifies their harmony with blood between her thighs She’s jealous of every new whim kneads her tongue with hankerings for salt Replies without eyes to a world in silence   Fan-Locked is…

  • Ágnes Nagy’s Poetic Prose translated by Hugh Maxton.

    From ‘Leaf-Stalks’ “Yet I would not dismiss the nonentities. The things that nearly are not. Journey of woodbine, ampelopsis on the ancient walls (of garden and its house), clutch of tendrils and trailing plants, the shuffling of their minute paws, with pads of suction for terminals of their thread-like minute fingers, and claws, green zig-zag path of lizards…