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Navalny Blues

Valery Oisteanu

In a narrow cell padded with silence On the gulag corridors to Purgatory Walks the last hope for Russia without Putin The cruel wind whistles through the cracks Kafka trials stretch sentences beyond life Cannibalistic t...

Sunflowers of Bucha

Valery Oisteanu

The Sun is bursting with gunfire across Ukraine Looking at Stash’s photos from the front line Huge yellow flowers blossom on abandoned tanks Growing over and under the rusting trucks Graffiti painted by the weakened sur...

Lost & Found

Valery Oisteanu

A chandelier of clouds twists over the mountains Signaling the launch of the morning But that will not end my dreams Which refuse to stop the apocalyptic nightmare The invisible reality lies undetected by the senses L...

Eye-Moon Crescent in Morocco

Valery Oisteanu

The eyelid of the moon just opened The wind is never quiet in the desert Dunes of no return, caravans not ever stopping Where rain falls invisible leaving no trace Shape shifting humps reveal a sphinx At the edge of a...

where night and day become one—the french poems /1983-2017 by Steve Dalachinsky—review

Valery Oisteanu

where night and day become one the french poems /1983-2017 by Steve Dalachinsky Great Weather for Media, NYC, 2018 Steve Dalachinsky is a poet /cultural reporter of our time, not only via his essays, but also through...

Narcoleptic Blues

Valery Oisteanu

Narcoleptic blues To Ruth Sleeping poems burning in my brain “Solitude” tarot card cries out love supreme Submerged ice flows turning to blood Rising and melting through twisted clouds Waves carry the tsunami tow...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko Has Left the Planet

Valery Oisteanu

Yevgeny Yevtushenko has Left the Planet On a quiet Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma A Russian poet dies, smiling in his dream All his life he waited for springtime But spring never arrived, only sounds The sound of wind w...

Anarchy for a Rainy Day – Review by Jim Feast

Jim Feast

Reading the new book of poetry by Valery Oisteanu, Anarchy for a Rainy Day, which is written in Surrealist style, the author himself an avowed member of this school, makes me think of an earlier, critically powerful critique...

The Loneliness of a Lost Horseshoe

Valery Oisteanu

The Loneliness of a Lost Horseshoe I did not dream a broken bone, a hole in my foot But my limbs suffered from accidental falls Biographers would be seduced by my pain-blues I have shattered my toes, some of them twic...