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Carlota Caulfield,
34th Street and Other
Poems
(Translated by Chris Allen and the author).
(Poetry)
Published by InteliBooks
In English
Softcover
56 pages
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About the Book
From Jack Foley's preface:
"It is Carlota Caulfield's extraordinary ability to remain
in that precise state -at once separated and connected, exiled
and 'at home'- that gives her work its special poignancy and
joy, its special power. The poems of 34th Street revolve with
great richness around themes of memory, exile, love, childhood,
dreams. Like Lewis Carroll's Alice, Carlota seems to have immediate
access to another world, a world which she can enter 'through
the keyhole of memories' or through 'dream.' "
From "You All Know the Story
of the Two Lovers":
Today Eurydice played
With the labyrinthine earth
And imagined herself
Bound to Orpheus' skin.
Imagined herself...
Somewhere inside him.
Today Orpheus played
With his hands
And imagined himself
Playing a drum
Somewhere inside
Eurydice's intermittent city.
From "For my Father"
You who lived walking over time.
Majestic of skin and of soul. You
Whom solitude made into a god.
I remember your ancestral darkness,
Dreaming dreams of what you never hoped for,
The roads without final prayers,
The accursed tranquillity which cut our wings.
I saw you die. It was that morning
When I begin to be nobody.
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