Somebody told me that somebody is busy waking up
in the middle of the night - even in the more than
recent freezing weather - compulsively researching and writing
a volume to be entitled, "American Gulag: At Home & Abroad."
The name of the author is still secret; it is said that he or she
Suffers from severe anxiety spells & unspeakable hallucinatory terrors.
Has anybody heard a similar story?
Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
> Some of the enws has been out there.
>
> I'm reminded of a poem by Canadian writer, Eli Mandel:
>
> Beware the Sick Lion
>
> They say Stalin at night
> sleepless in the suburbs of Moscow
> drew up long lists of enemies
>
> think of that dreadful paper
>
> to be sentenced by the pen
> of an insomniac sleep-writing
>
> new stars wheel over Spain
> bulldozers cut roads through groves
> in Africa moors rule who once ruled Spain
>
> sleepless I pace before barred windows
> fake-andalusian arches and toward sea
> a Parador only cuts lines against the dark
> where dark Greeks and Phoenicians sailed
>
> if it is love that fingers in the mind
> wake with a touch
> curious
> I remember only what was lost
>
> plotting my own purges and despairs
>
> & as a poet, connecting it to questioning himself...
>
> This has been a very interesting conversation. And I too was grateful
> to get the url for the Ash article.
>
> Doug
> Douglas Barbour
> Department of English
> University of Alberta
> Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
> (780) 436 3320
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>
> The poet is ecstatic, having dreamt of this visit for weeks.
> He takes Eratošs face, dribbling and wild, between his hands
>
> and kisses her gently as if she were a runaway teenager.
>
> Diana Hartog
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