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As readers everywhere of the Sufi poet Rumi know, his thought is at once profound...
To his European audience Sanguineti is the intellectual confrère of writers such as Italo Calvino...
This collection of poetry, inspired by Antonio Barolini's residence in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, was originally...
The writing of Carlos De Oliveira is usually considered neo-realist, but this selection of poems...
To be Hitchcockian about it, the story deals with the relationship between Umber, a professor...
Juhan Liiv (1864-1913) has the same significance for Estonian culture that Federico García Lorca and T.S. Eliot have for modern culture created, respectively, in Spanish and English. Liiv's existential-patriotic and intimate-holistic lyrics have had an impact across Estonian society. Rebellion against all models and fashions existing in poetry unites Liiv with Walt Whitman: noble and proud, always in search of original expression, ever aspiring to resemble God in the inimitability of creation.
"It would be madness / to silence one's mother tongue. / Even the hen explicates things / to her brood."
