Winter 2011/2012
Cover art
“Still Life with Five Bottles”
by Samuel Bak
Samuel Bak is an artist who was born in Vilnius, Lithuania (then Poland) in 1933. Having survived the Holocaust, he lived and worked in Tel Aviv, Paris, Rome, New York, and Lausanne. In 1993 he settled in Massachusetts and became an American citizen. He exhibits internationally. His memoir, Painted in Words, was translated into several languages.
Poetry
from Refutations by Memory
Flood
Cupid & Psyche
My Own Sea
In the Beginning
Cicadas
Lima Hotel
Unemployment Reaches Record Highs
Star City
My Favorite, Most Savage Irony
“Suspicious Incident” at the Canal
Birdbrain
On Time
Stick Figures
A Tour of Pompeii’s Red Light District
Think of the missiles
Believers
Motherless
The Sequence of Belief
Souffle au Coeur
The Five Outer Feathers
No Colors are Foreign
Vagabond
Canna Red and Orange
Photo Rescued from a Red Leatherette Scrapbook
How to Find Words for an Elegy
I Steered Clear
Pigeon House and Barn, 1827
For hundreds each evening
Cairo Scenes: Girl in Blue
Paris Fugue
For Grace Hubble
Watching the Waterfall at Ten Thousand Foot Cliff on Xuedou Peak
Filament
Late October