Tag: Tess Gallagher

• ‘The Headless Bird’ by Ileana Mãlãncioiu

  

  According to custom, the old people have shut me away not to scare me stupid when they killed the bird, and I am listening by the bolted door to the trampling and the struggle. I twist the lock time has worn thin to forget what I have heard, to get away from this struggle where […]

  Chris Murray

  September 29, 2012

  A Saturday Woman Poet, Images, reviews, translated poetry, Translation

  Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Hugh Maxton, Irish poetry, Paul Celan, Poet, poetry, Tess Gallagher, Todesfuge

• Two poems by Liliana Ursu.

  

  Poem with a Griffin, a Pike and Peacocks. I am reading a poem while it rains. The day blinks through windows guarded by a griffin; its talons flex, its tail switches.   Do you remember those summer showers high in the mountains? The dull pop of a toadstool beneath your bare foot in the dew-covered […]

  Chris Murray

  November 21, 2008

  Images, War

  25 Pins in a Packet, Arts, Bloodaxe Books, Liliana Ursu, Literature, poetry, Tess Gallagher, Women Creators, World Literature

• A Saturday Woman Translator, Sheema Kalbasi.

  With You by Mehri Rahmani Your tender revolt Contained by the illicit apple Pounds in red And your eye’s shattered diamond A woman in seclusion Revolves into a star With you On the surface of water I am thirsty Place the skies in your eyes Blaze out the star So that I can see you […]

  Chris Murray

  November 15, 2008

  Blogging, How Words Play, Images

  25 Pins in a Packet, Nelly Sachs, Paul Celan, poetry, Tess Gallagher, Translation, Women Creators, Women’s writing in English