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Montri Umavijani is the foremost poet of Thailand. The poems which appear above are from his book The Peripatetic of Paradise, which was published in Bangkok last year in a small edition.
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March 19, 2019
Do this in memory of my mother
and of my mother’s mother
Here is this lacquered box (Fig. 100.5) inlaid
with their blood
and of my mother’s mother
Here is this lacquered box (Fig. 100.5) inlaid
with their blood
March 12, 2019
after collapsing at the plaza fountain in Turin Nietzsche gave up
coherent speech and stayed alive somewhere else for almost twelve years
his unmapped terrain resembled a canvas painted black in successive
luminous opacities of backlit abyss, if he turned on a television
this is what he saw, if he closed his eyes, if he looked out the window
again unshielded night
coherent speech and stayed alive somewhere else for almost twelve years
his unmapped terrain resembled a canvas painted black in successive
luminous opacities of backlit abyss, if he turned on a television
this is what he saw, if he closed his eyes, if he looked out the window
again unshielded night
by Tova Reich
March 5, 2019
For once they all agreed, it would be the concert of the season, the return of the prodigy son. The Jerusalem music scene was in heat—survivors, empty seat fillers, remnants planted on their subscriptions, but from the neck up, in brainpans that went on ticking, still the strictest standards, the highest expectations.
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The Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Joanna Scott reads from her work
Monday, April 1, 2019
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium