by inannaadmin | May 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Requiem I have woven you this wide shroud out of humble words I overheard you use. Everywhere, forever and always, I will never forget one single thing. Requiem by Anna Akhmatova As Akhmatova states in a short prose preface to the work, Rekviem was conceived...
by inannaadmin | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot I. The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month, breedinglilacs out of the dead land, mixingmemory and desire, stirringdull roots with spring rain....
by inannaadmin | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
49th Shelf Browses Books in Death Like the figure she describes in her ekphrastic poem “Clotho” as “Ensnared in long tentacles of hair, skeletal, toothless, chiseled in white marble…” Martonfi’s The Tempest has hewn her own spare...
by inannaadmin | Sep 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Ciuri ciuri Ciuri, ciuri, ciuri di tuttu l’annu l’amuri ca mi dasti ti lu tornu. Ciuri, ciuri, ciuri di tuttu l’annu l’amuri ca mi dasti ti lu tornu. Flower, flowers Flower, flowers, flowers all the year The love you gave me I give you back...
by inannaadmin | Feb 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
Ilona Martonfi, author of The Sow Kimono and Salt Bride, introduces yūgen, Yosa Buson’s haiga, calligraphy, round nibs, brush and ink. She will offer a tanka sequence “Elegy”, a free verse “Ghost of the Tsunami”, the haiku sequence “Chernobyl Pianos”, and a witness...
