Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.0, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Cerise Press A Journal of Literature, Arts & Culture ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.cerisepress.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Why My Poems are (Not) Sad: Nguyen Do and His Vietnam](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/why-my-poems-are-not-sad-nguyen-do-and-his-vietnam) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 interview with Nguyen Do by Greta Aart. - [A Mind at Work: Philadelphia Poet Pattie McCarthy](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/a-mind-at-work-philadelphia-poet-pattie-mccarthy) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 interview with poet Pattie McCarthy by Karen Rigby. - [Summer on a Sidewalk / chiều hạ ven đường](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/summer-on-a-sidewalk) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Nguyen Do, translated by Paul Hoover and the author. a summer sundown, drinking ruou on a sidewalk, watching... - [Palms on an Autumn Evening / vân tay chiều thu](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/palms-on-an-autumn-evening) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Nguyen Do, translated by Paul Hoover and the author. an autumn evening in a quiet garden I hold my left hand... - [Lullaby for a Vine / ru lá nho](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/lullaby-for-a-vine) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Nguyen Do, translated by Paul Hoover and the author. the grass is fully covered with furrows of vines... - [In Late Winter, I Returned to Visit You / cuối đông con về](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/in-late-winter-i-returned-to-visit-you) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Nguyen Do, translated by Paul Hoover and the author. in late winter, I returned to visit you the sky was... - [On My Home Beach / Bên bờ biển nhà tôi](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/on-my-home-beach) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Nguyen Do, translated by Paul Hoover and the author. the sea is cold and silent, like a widow... - [[ it’s not coming from you, but whom, that sunlight ] / [ không phải từ ngươi, từ ai, từ ánh nắng kia ]](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/its-not-coming-from-you-but-whom-that-sunlight) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Nguyen Do, translated by Paul Hoover and the author. it’s not coming from you, but whom... - [Going to the North / Về phía Bắc](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/going-to-the-north) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Nguyen Do, translated by Paul Hoover and the author. suddenly I feel so sad, I can’t hold my head up... - [A Dog / Con chó](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/a-dog) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Nguyen Do, translated by Paul Hoover and the author. he sits there day by day — a starving dog... - [The Train](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/the-train) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 fiction by Dominic Saucedo. The lights all go out, one by one. He flips a switch and there’s a pop and a blue spark... - [Crescendo](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/crescendo) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 fiction by Ann Scott Knight. Marina had been practicing her violin whenever she pleased. Of course, she never... - [The Comedy of Maria](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/the-comedy-of-maria) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 fiction by James Harris. As Sebastian, the old writer, moved the brush through his hair, exposing beneath it... - ["So Peculiarly American": Basketball and American Popular Music](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/so-peculiarly-american-basketball-and-american-popular-music) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 essay by Delano Greenidge-Copprue. Was philosopher and historian Jacques Barzun right when he famously proclaimed... - [Thuja plicata: Nestboxes](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/thuja-plicata-nestboxes) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 essay by Theresa Kishkan. When I was growing up, my family moved every two years. - [Sea of Love](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/sea-of-love) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 fiction by Maura Stanton. When I stepped out the front doors of the Venice train station, I thought I had entered the frame... - [The Multiple Poetic Cartographies of Carlota Caulfield](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/the-multiple-poetic-cartographies-of-carlota-caulfield) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 interview with poet and translator Carlota Caulfield by Mary G. Berg. - [The Poetics of Gracelessness](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/the-poetics-of-gracelessness) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 essay by Ellen McGrath Smith. One day a few years ago, I ran into my friend, the poet Jeff Oaks... - [Offending the Reader](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/offending-the-reader) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 essay by Victoria Best. I had myself down as a tough-minded reader, after fifteen years of researching... - [What Do You Say to a Shadow?](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/what-do-you-say-to-a-shadow) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 fiction by Michael Allen Zell. Can you believe that we are north of somewhere, considering the slice... - [Road Train](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/road-train) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 fiction by Dana Kroos. On the first day of the rains the Australians walked to the ocean, surfboards in hand... - [from Vieuchange: A Novel](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/from-vieuchange-a-novel) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 fiction by Brady Harrison. I remember seeing Isabelle two years earlier, as she entered a desolate hostel... - [Last Stop](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/last-stop) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 fiction by Sanaphay Rattanavong. Some days ago, the fortuneteller told Jin that he’d see his little daughter again... - [Shakespeare in the Park in New York City](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/shakespeare-in-the-park-in-new-york-city) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 essay by Sophie Gorshch. Let me caution you before I begin. I coached an actor for an audition who had seen All’s Well That... - [Bushclover and the Moon](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/bushclover-and-the-moon) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 fiction by John Givens. A true son of Edo, high-spirited, candid, and fond of all things new and novel... - [Lightness](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/lightness) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 fiction by John Givens. Old Master Bashō was dead, and he had left behind no leader with sufficient stature... - [A Selection of Haiku by Buson](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/a-selection-of-haiku-by-buson) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poems by Buson, translated by Edward McFadden. In the Vegetable Root Discourses or Saikontan written by Kōjisei... - [Minidoka Fences](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/minidoka-fences) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 essay by Larry Matsuda. I was born in the Minidoka, Idaho War Relocation Center — Block 26, barrack 10... - [In San Jacinto](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/in-san-jacinto) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 fiction by Cheri Johnson. In the daytime Annika watched out of the lockshop window the zombie-eyed grackles... - [Dinner at Home](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/dinner-at-home) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 essay by Paulette Licitra. Where do you like to eat? You might say in a kitchen, a restaurant... - [Apnea](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/apnea) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 essay by Josip Novakovich. Most people are far more adventurous in their waking state than in sleep... - [Voices](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/voices) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 fiction by Leo Vanderpot. Bill stands and looks out the window of Harry's Bakery. Three weeks and the medication... - [Tales in a Moroccan Landscape II](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/tales-in-a-moroccan-landscape-ii) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 fiction by Mary Byrne. In the 1930s, Ahmed lived in French Morocco. He had no money and no job... - [The Nuremberg Schembartlauf and the Art of Albrecht Dürer](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/the-nuremberg-schembartlauf-and-the-art-of-albrecht-durer) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 essay by Stefanie H. Weisman. In the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance, Nuremberg was home... - [Guantanamera](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/kim-cheng-boey-guantanamera) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 essay by Kim Cheng Boey. In memory everything lives in music, says the American poet William Matthews... - [Blows and Bombs: Stephen Barber on Antonin Artaud](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/blows-and-bombs-stephen-barber-on-antonin-artaud) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 interview with Stephen Barber by Louis E. Bourgeois. - [Means of Transport, Medieval Mind: Dialogue with Angie Estes](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/means-of-transport-medieval-mind-dialogue-with-angie-estes) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 interview with poet Angie Estes by Karen Rigby. - [The Flower Artist](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/the-flower-artist) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 essay by Melissa Kwasny. Late in his life, the painter Morris Graves... - [Why Cleopatra?](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/why-cleopatra) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 essay by Theresa Urbainczyk. Cleopatra could be called one of the first celebrities. Since the first century B.C... - [Life Along the Hudson: A Visual Voyage with Joseph Squillante](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/life-along-the-hudson-a-visual-voyage-with-joseph-squillante) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 interview with photographer Joseph Squillante by Sally Molini. - [Scenography is a Living Form of Art: Meeting Pamela Howard](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/scenography-is-a-living-form-of-art-meeting-pamela-howard) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 interview with scenographer Pamela Howard by Greta Aart. - [Between Invisible Moments / Entre les moments invisibles](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/entre-les-moments-invisibles-between-invisible-moments) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 photography by Olivier Schwartz. Between Invisible Moments. - [From Near, From Far, Intimate Portraits, Fleeting Figures / De près, de loin, portraits intimes, figures fugaces](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/from-near-from-far-intimate-portraits-fleeting-figures) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 photography by Olivier Schwartz. From Near, From Far, Intimate Portraits, Fleeting Figures - [Vanishing Faces, Disappearing Places: Indonesia](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/vanishing-faces-disappearing-places-indonesia) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 photography by Larry Louie. The current pace of development around the world has brought widespread concern... - [Vanishing Faces of Tibet](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/vanishing-faces-of-tibet) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 photography by Larry Louie. The current pace of industrial development around the world has brought widespread... - [Homage: Remembering Chernobyl](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/homage-remembering-chernobyl) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 photography by Jim Krantz. - [The Opulence Notebook](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/the-opulence-notebook) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 essay by Rick Barot. In one of his books on geology, John McPhee observes that geologists tend to specialize... - [“Where Burdock and Nettles” / Где лопух и крапива](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/where-burdock-and-nettles) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Maxim Amelin by Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher. Where burdock and nettles / strewn along... - [On the Acquisition of a Volume of V.I. Maikov’s Works and Translations / НА ПРИОБРЕТЕНИЕ ТОМА сочинений и переводов В. И. Майкова](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/on-the-acquisition-of-a-volume-of-v-i-maikovs-works-and-translations) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Maxim Amelin by Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher. A century and thirty, Vasily Ivanych / Maikov?! - [Wilful Blindness: The Marriage of André and Madeleine Gide](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/wilful-blindness-the-marriage-of-andre-and-madeleine-gide) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 essay by Victoria Best. There must have been quite a bonfire. A thick plume of smoke... - [A Gypsy's Book of Revelation](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/a-gypsys-book-of-revelation) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 fiction by Cécile Barlier. Picture number one: I lay in a box and rest. Forever. I thought western science would find... - [Poetry as the Site of a Collision — Mexican Poet Tedi López Mills](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/poetry-as-the-site-of-a-collision-mexican-poet-tedi-lopez-mills) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 interview by Wendy Burk with Mexican poet Tedi López Mills. - [Where is Love's Labor's Lost?](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/where-is-loves-labors-lost) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 essay by Deloss Brown. I started out to write “Where is Love’s Labor’s Won,” but realized I had to explain... - [Lakeside](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/lakeside) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 photography by Walter Luttenberger - Lakeside. - [Only Through Unknowing: Darcey Steinke on Fiction, Divinity, Spirituality and Beyond](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/only-through-unknowing-darcey-steinke-on-fiction-divinity-spiritualty-and-beyond) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 interview by Stephanie Papa with Darcey Steinke, novelist, nonfiction writer, and author of the memoir Easter Everywhere. - [Film After Film / Cinema After Deleuze: Hoberman, Rushton, Deleuze, and 21st Century Cinema](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/film-after-film-cinema-after-deleuze) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013 Vol. 4 Issue 12 review by Jose-Luis Moctezuma of Film After Film / Cinema After Deleuze. - [A Sense of the Elemental: Jeffrey Greene on Writing and Life in France](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/a-sense-of-the-elemental-jeffrey-greene-on-writing-and-life-in-france) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 interview with Jeffrey Greene by Stephanie Papa. - [Bringing Compassion to the World: Fiction and Nonfiction Writer Perle Besserman](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/bringing-compassion-to-the-world-fiction-and-nonfiction-writer-perle-besserman) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 interview with fiction and nonfiction writer Perle Besserman by Pat Matsueda. - [Searching for Other Voices: Novelist and Poet Laura Kasischke](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/searching-for-other-voices-novelist-and-poet-laura-kasischke) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 interview with Laura Kasischke by Sally Molini. - [Going Abroad — Poet, Novelist, Translator and Editor David Constantine](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/going-abroad-poet-novelist-translator-and-editor-david-constantine) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 interview with novelist, poet, and translator David Constantine, by Joseph Hutchison. - [Pear-blossoms and Mule-eyes: Mule & Pear by Rachel Eliza Griffiths](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/mule-and-pear-by-rachel-eliza-griffiths) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 review by Meccah Jamilah Sullivan of Rachel Eliza Griffiths' Mule & Pear. - [Connecting Poets and Readers: An Invisible Rope, Portraits of Czesław Miłosz Edited by Cynthia L. Haven](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/an-invisible-rope-portraits-of-czeslaw-milosz) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 review by Mary Harwell Sayler of An Invisible Rope, Portraits of Czesław Miłosz edited by Cynthia L. Haven. - [An Eye from History and Reality — Woeser and the Story of Tibet](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/an-eye-from-history-and-reality-woeser-and-the-story-of-tibet) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 interview with Woeser by Dechen Pemba. - [Translation as Self-Expression: Nicky Harman](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/translation-as-self-expression-nicky-harman) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 interview with Nicky Harman by Greta Aart (nom-de-plume of Fiona Sze-Lorrain). - [Taking the Time to Be Brief: Edith Pearlman](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/taking-the-time-to-be-brief-edith-pearlman) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 interview with fiction writer Edith Pearlman by Karen Rigby. - [Foreboding and Allure: Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls by Erika Meitner](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/makeshift-instructions-for-vigilant-girls-by-erika-meitner) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 review by Karen Rigby of Erika Meitner's Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls. - [Evidence of Belonging: Strata by Ewa Chrusciel](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/strata-by-ewa-chrusciel) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 review of Ewa Chruschiel's Strata by Christina Cook. - [Walking in Landscapes and Seasons: Melissa Kwasny and the Art of Nature](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/walking-in-landscapes-and-seasons-melissa-kwasny-and-the-art-of-nature) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 interview by Greta Aart: "Walking in Landscapes and Seasons: Melissa Kwasny and the Art of Nature." - [What is Found There: Keeping the Mystery Alive — Peter Cole on Writing and Translation](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/what-is-found-there-keeping-the-mystery-alive-peter-cole-on-writing-and-translation) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 interview with poet and translator Peter Cole, by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. - [Dark Matter Camera: Here Be Monsters by Colin Cheney](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/dark-matter-camera-here-be-monsters-by-colin-cheney) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 review of Colin Cheney's Here Be Monsters by Erica Goss. - [Pattern and Variation: A Conversation with Ellen Bryant Voigt](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/pattern-and-variation-a-conversation-with-ellen-bryant-voigt) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 interview with Ellen Bryant Voigt by Sally Molini. - [Vanished Selves, Times and Places: Between Stations by Kim Cheng Boey](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/vanished-selves-times-and-places-between-stations-by-kim-cheng-boey) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 review of Between Stations (Kim Cheng Boey) by Karen Rigby. - [A Poet's Humble Answers: Naomi Shihab Nye](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/a-poets-humble-answers-naomi-shihab-nye) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 interview with Naomi Shihab Nye by Greta Aart and Sally Molini. - [The Rest is Silence — I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature by Lucia Perillo](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/the-rest-is-silence-ive-heard-the-vultures-singing-field-notes-on-poetry-illness-and-nature-by-lucia-perillo) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 review of Lucia Perillo's I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing by Thomas Lawrence Long. - [Square as a Picasso Pear: An Introduction to the Prose Poem Edited by Brian Clements and James Dunham](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/square-as-a-picasso-pear-an-introduction-to-the-prose-poem-edited-by-brian-clements-and-james-dunham) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 review of An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Edited by Brian Clements and Jamey Dunham) by Linwood Rumney. - [A Crack in the Wind — Stone Lyre: Poems of René Char Translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/a-crack-in-the-wind-stone-lyre-poems-of-rene-char-translated-by-nancy-naomi-carlson) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5, review of René Char's Stone Lyre, by William La Ganza. - [“Wandering in Earth”: Slantwise by Betty Adcock](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/wandering-in-earth-slantwise-by-betty-adcock) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 review of Slantwise (Betty Adcock) by Sally Molini. - [Beyond the Margins: Then, Something by Patricia Fargnoli](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/beyond-the-margins-then-something-by-patricia-fargnoli) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 review of Patricia Fargnoli by Greta Aart and Sally Molini. - [Surrealism and the Sacred: Celia Rabinovitch](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/surrealism-and-the-sacred-celia-rabinovitch) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 interview with Celia Rabinovitch by Louis E. Bourgeois. - [Seeking a New You: Speaking with Mariela Griffor](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/seeking-a-new-you-speaking-with-mariela-griffor) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 interview with Mariela Griffor by Greta Aart. - [Beauty Amidst Wreckage: Once the Shore by Paul Yoon](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/beauty-amidst-wreckage-once-the-shore-by-paul-yoon) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 review of Once the Shore (Paul Yoon) by Karen Rigby. - [Untitled (for Mandelshtam)](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/untitled-for-mandelshtam) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Tony Brinkley. From my hands, take my city — like a torrent — - [from Poems for Akhmatova](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/from-poems-for-akhmatova) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Tony Brinkley. Like ten thousand voices — above a field of oats... - [Passages from An Attempt at a Room / ПОПЫТКА КОМНАТЫ](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/passages-from-an-attempt-at-a-room) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Tony Brinkley. Walls — the walls’ stabilities — for me to number... - [Untitled (My Sister — Life)](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/untitled-my-sister-life) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Boris Pasternak, translated by Tony Brinkley. My sister — life — tonight the spring-rains burst and flood... - [Miracle / Чудо](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/miracle) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Boris Pasternak, translated by Tony Brinkley. Wandering from Bethany to Jerusalem, worn by presentiments... - [Untitled (for Tsvetaeva)](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/untitled-for-tsvetaeva) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Osip Mandelshtam, translated by Tony Brinkley and Raina Kostova. Without believing in the Resurrection... - [Untitled (for Akhmatova) / Ахматовой](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/untitled-for-akhmatova) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Osip Mandelshtam, translated by Tony Brinkley and Raina Kostova. Grief sorrowing — indifferent glances — - [Voronezh / ВОРОНЕЖ](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/voronezh) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Tony Brinkley. All the city held in ice — like walls, the snow and trees... - [There are Four of Us / Нас четверо](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/there-are-four-of-us) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Tony Brinkley.... So now I have renounced it all — soil and all the blessings... - [Untitled (Green Crete, my blue island...)](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/untitled-green-crete-my-blue-island) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Osip Mandelshtam, translated by Tony Brinkley and Raina Kostova. Green Crete, my blue island, famous... - [Untitled (I execute a smoky ritual)](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/untitled-i-execute-a-smoky-ritual) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Osip Mandelshtam, translated by Tony Brinkley and Raina Kostova. I execute a smoky ritual — my disgrace... - [Untitled (With no need to speak)](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/untitled-with-no-need-to-speak) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Osip Mandelshtam, translated by Tony Brinkley and Raina Kostova. 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by Katherine Hoffman](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/alfred-stieglitz-a-legacy-of-light-by-katherine-hoffman) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 review by George Slade of Katherine Hoffman's Alfred Stieglitz: A Legacy of Light. - ["Where the Center Begins and Ends" — The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception by Martha Silano](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/the-little-office-of-the-immaculate-conception-by-martha-silano) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 review by Éireann Lorsung of Martha Silano's The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception. - [Uncommon Journey — The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road by Paul Theroux](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/the-tao-of-travel-enlightenments-from-lives-on-the-road-by-paul-theroux) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 review by Maryanne Hannan of Paul Theroux's The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road. - [Far-flung Travels: Other Romes by Derek Mong](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/other-romes-by-derek-mong) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 review by Eleanor Goodman of Derek Mong's Other Romes. - [Tracing a Shadow — Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins by Yaël Tamar Lewin and Janet Collins](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/tracing-a-shadow-nights-dancer-the-life-of-janet-collins) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 review by Lightsey Darst of Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins by Yaël Tamar Lewin and Janet Collins. - [In Search of a Transient Eternity: Chinese Poet Yu Xiang](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/in-search-of-a-transient-eternity-chinese-poet-yu-xiang) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 interview with Yu Xiang by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. - [Entering Another Literature: Christopher Mattison on Russian, Chinese, and Hong Kong Literature in Translation](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/entering-another-literature-christopher-mattison) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 interview with Christopher Mattison by Greta Aart. - [A House Made of Words: One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/one-hundred-names-for-love-by-diane-ackerman) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 review of Diane Ackerman's One Hundred Names for Love by Sharanya Manivannan. - [The Line of Mystery and Fire: The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/the-passion-according-to-g-h-by-clarice-lispector) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 review of Clarice Lispector's The Passion According to G.H. by Katie Assef. - [“Greedy-eye, don’t look for me”: The Imperative, The Poet, and The Reader in Now Make an Altar by Amy Beeder](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/now-make-an-altar-by-amy-beeder) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 issue 12 review by Emilia Phillips of Now Make an Altar by Amy Beeder. - [Chimerical, Elemental, and Magical: The Girls of Peculiar by Catherine Pierce](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/the-girls-of-peculiar-by-catherine-pierce) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 review by Amy Pence of The Girls of Peculiar by Catherine Pierce. - [Portraitist and Chronicler — Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940 by Stephen Brown](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/edouard-vuillard-a-painter-and-his-muses-1890-1940-by-stephen-brown) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 review by Merridawn Duckler of Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses 1890-1940 by Stephen Brown. - [Another World, Another Imaginative Work: Poet and Publisher Paul B. Roth](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/another-world-another-imaginative-work-poet-and-publisher-paul-b-roth) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 interview with poet and publisher Paul B. Roth by the editors. - [Insider/Outsider: Novelist Eileen Pollack](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/insider-outsider-novelist-eileen-pollack) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 interview with novelist Eileen Pollack. - [Poetry Chants at the Moment When Water Evaporates: South Korean Poet Kim Seung-Hee](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/south-korean-poet-kim-seung-hee) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 interview with South Korean poet Kim Seung-Hee by Ruth Williams, translated by S.B. - [Writing for a Theatre of Paper — French Poet Chantal Dupuy-Dunier / Écrire pour un théâtre de papier — Chantal Dupuy-Dunier](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/writing-for-a-theatre-of-paper-french-poet-chantal-dupuy-dunier) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 interview with French poet Chantal Dupuy-Dunier by Darla Himeles. - [Courir de ville en ville et de pays en pays : Vénus Khoury-Ghata, écrivain français / Running from City to City, Country to Country: French Writer Vénus Khoury-Ghata](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/french-writer-venus-khoury-ghata) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 interview by Christina Cook with poet and novelist Vénus Khoury-Ghata. - [Conversing with Clare Harris, Author of The Museum on the Roof of the World](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/conversing-with-clare-harris-author-of-the-museum-on-the-roof-of-the-world) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 interview by Dechen Pemba with Clare Harris, curator for the Asian collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum. - [Martha Graham: In Love and War — Dance Historian, Choreographer and Dancer Mark Franko](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/dance-historian-choreographer-and-dancer-mark-franko) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 interview by Greta Aart with dance historian, choreographer and dancer Mark Franko on Martha Graham: In Love and War. - [The Mysterious Museum of Mongolia — Buddha in the Yurt: Buddhist Art from Mongolia Edited by Carmen Meinert](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/buddha-in-the-yurt-buddhist-art-from-mongolia-edited-by-carmen-meinert) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 review by Paul Kahn of Buddha in the Yurt: Buddhist Art from Mongolia Edited by Carmen Meinert. - [A Hermetic Conversation: Watchword by Pura López-Colomé](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/watchword-by-pura-lopez-colome) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 review by Joseph Hutchison of Pura López-Colomé's Watchword. - [Walls Have Ears, Ceilings Have Eyes: Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/walls-have-ears-ceilings-have-eyes-das-leben-der-anderen-the-lives-of-others) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 review of The Lives of Others by Greta Aart and Karen Rigby. The Hungarian novelist, Imre Kertész, once remarked, “It’s easier to write literature in a dictatorship than in a democracy.” - [Touched by This Most Perfect Thing: The Mother/Child Papers by Alicia Suskin Ostriker](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/touched-by-this-most-perfect-thing-the-motherchild-papers-by-alicia-suskin-ostriker) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 review of The Mother/Child Papers (Alicia Suskin Ostriker) by William La Ganza. - [Lyricism of a Flighted World: Old Heart by Stanley Plumly](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/lyricism-of-a-flighted-world-old-heart-by-stanley-plumly) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 review of Old Heart (Stanley Plumly) by Molly Sutton Kiefer. - [Gardens Under the Rain](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/gardens-under-the-rain) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Sarah Gridley. Precipitous hues for prepositions, brush to the sea-revising sun, wand of soaked fire... - [Let's Party](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/lets-party) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 essay by Wendy Barker. In 1966 Peter Matthiessen missed the party of the decade. His explanation that he’d hit a... - [Tom's Diner](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/toms-diner) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 fiction by Sushma Joshi. I'm hungry. I haven’t eaten a full meal in two days. Two days ago, I went to the Hungarian... - [Polar Opposites, All the Same: Shopping for Porcupine by Seth Kantner](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/polar-opposites-all-the-same-shopping-for-porcupine-by-seth-kantner) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 review of Shopping for Porcupine (Seth Kantner) by Mira Ptacin. - [Heightened Sense of Distance: Journal of a Prairie Year by Paul Gruchow](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/heightened-sense-of-distance-journal-of-a-prairie-year-by-paul-gruchow) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 review of Journal of a Prairie Year (Paul Gruchow) by A.S. Penne. - [The Split Heart: Carta Marina by Ann Fisher-Wirth](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/the-split-heart-carta-marina-by-ann-fisher-wirth) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 review by William La Ganza on Carta Marina (Ann Fisher-Wirth). - [A Change of Worlds — If I Were Another: Poems by Mahmoud Darwish](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/a-change-of-worlds-if-i-were-another-poems-by-mahmoud-darwish) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 review of If I Were Another (Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah) by Erica Goss. - ["You've lost your muchness": Carroll and Burton in Wonderland](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/youve-lost-your-muchness-carroll-and-burton-in-wonderland) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 review of Alice in Wonderland by Rosemary J. Collins. - [In the Footsteps of Anna Akhmatova: Helga Olshvang Landauer's Cinema as a Form of Poetry](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/in-the-footsteps-of-anna-akhmatova-helga-olshvang-landauers-cinema-as-a-form-of-poetry) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 interview with filmmaker Helga Olshvang Landauer by Greta Aart and Claire Paoletti. - [Between Poetic Vision and Scientific Knowledge: Lorand Gaspar](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/between-poetic-vision-and-scientific-knowledge-lorand-gaspar) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translator's note, "Between Poetic Vision and Scientific Knowledge: Lorand Gaspar" by Daniela Hurezanu and Stephen Kessler. - [The Dress from Bangladesh](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/the-dress-from-bangladesh) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 fiction by Mary Helen Stefaniak. At first Joan felt only twinges — a quickening of the pulse as she reached ... - [Eating Pig](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/eating-pig) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 fiction by Pablo Medina. Galactic, ancient and dystopic, mostly it was memory that brought him to the feast... - [Three Feuilletonistes: Paul Féval, Émile Gaboriau, and Fortuné du Boisgobey](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/three-feuilletonistes-paul-feval-emile-gaboriau-and-fortune-du-boisgobey) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 essay by Nina Cooper. The question of the identity of the first detective story, of who really wrote it... - [The World Outside the Figure, the World Within the Figure: Painter Will Barnet](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/the-world-outside-the-figure-the-world-within-the-figure-painter-will-barnet) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 interview with painter Will Barnet by Barbara Flug Colins. - [A Bamboo Palace](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/a-bamboo-palace) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 essay by Geoffrey Heptonstall. There are two kinds of people in the world: those fortunate enough... - [Parable of the Bones](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/parable-of-the-bones) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 fiction by Joseph Gastiger. One day on Crete a man planting an olive tree broke through the same rocky soil... - [Person Lessons](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/person-lessons) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 essay by Ellen O'Connell. These days I am surprised to see my own face when I look in the mirror... - [Thirty Somehow](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/thirty-somehow) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 fiction by Alfred Marks. Pixie Henson sips her double strength, and doubts the efficacy of Sunday sessions and Berrocas. - [A Concerned Photographer: Helen M. Stummer](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/a-concerned-photographer-helen-m-stummer) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 interview with Helen M. Stummer by Sean Singer. - [Stepping Over the Threshold: On the Other Side, Blue by Collier Nogues](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/on-the-other-side-blue-by-collier-nogues) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 review of Collier Nogues' On the Other Side, Blue by Lori Wilson. - [Courting the Ineffable — Fully into Ashes by Sofia M. Starnes](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/fully-into-ashes-by-sofia-m-starnes) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 review of Sofia M. Starnes' Fully into Ashes by Maryanne Hannan. - [Courage, Wisdom, and Love — The Children of Lovers: A Memoir of William Golding by His Daughter by Judy Golding](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/the-children-of-lovers-a-memoir-of-william-golding-by-his-daughter-by-judy-golding) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 review of Judy Golding's The Children of Lovers: A Memoir of William Golding by His Daughter by Perle Besserman. - [Musings on Buson](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/musings-on-buson) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poems by Buson translated by Edward McFadden. It’s easy to get seduced by brushed concrete or polished wood... - [The Soul of Trombone — Grachan Moncur III](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/the-soul-of-trombone-grachan-moncur-iii) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 interview with jazz trombonist and composer Grachan Moncur III by Sean Singer. - [Introduction to an Excerpt from Living Life](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/introduction-to-an-excerpt-from-living-life) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 introduction to a fiction excerpt from Living Life by Sara Sefchovich, translated from the Spanish by Stacy McKenna. - [Centennial Sauvage: The Survival of Tristes tropiques](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/centennial-sauvage-the-survival-of-tristes-tropiques) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 essay by Paul Kahn. In December 2008, I read an article in an American newspaper... - [Hafez: Two Ghazals — Musicality and Wordplay](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/hafez-two-ghazals-musicality-and-wordplay) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translator's note on Hafez by Roger Sedarat. - [Castles out of Books: A Conversation with Anne Fadiman](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/castles-out-of-books-a-conversation-with-anne-fadiman) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 interview with Anne Fadiman by Sally Molini. - [Geographies of Jazz: Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams by Andrew S. Berish](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/lonesome-roads-and-streets-of-dreams-by-andrew-s-berish) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 review by Delano Greenidge-Copprue of Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams by Andrew S. Berish. - [The Science of Taste, A Taste of Science — French Historian E.C. Spary on the Science of Food in the French Enlightenment](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/french-historian-e-c-spary-on-the-science-of-food-in-the-french-enlightenment) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 interview with French historian E.C. Spary by Greta Aart. - [The Creative Energy of a Hive Mind — Translating "Turturro" by Daniel Zahno](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/the-creative-energy-of-a-hive-mind-translating-turturro-by-daniel-zahno) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translator's note on Daniel Zahno's "Turturro" by Lisa Marie Anderson. - [Dualities and Regret in Water Puppets by Quan Barry](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/water-puppets-by-quan-barry) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 review by Molly Sutton Kiefer of Quan Barry's Water Puppets. - [Is There a Definition for Opera — Opera Director Bernard Uzan](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/opera-director-bernard-uzan) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 interview by Merridawn Duckler with opera director Bernard Uzan. - [Writing from Yaizu, Japan — Fiction Writer Thersa Matsuura](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/writing-from-yaizu-japan-fiction-writer-thersa-matsuura) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 interview by Greta Aart with fiction writer Thersa Maatsura, author of the short story collection A Robe of Feathers. - [The Attendant Prince](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/the-attendant-prince) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 essay by Geoffrey Heptonstall. There is comedy in Hamlet quite apart from the set-piece clowning of the gravediggers. - [Make Something Happen: Museums as Inspiration](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/make-something-happen-museums-as-inspiration) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 essay by Erica Goss. In The Triggering Town, Richard Hugo writes... - [It All Came Apart: After West by James Harms](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/it-all-came-apart-after-west-by-james-harms) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 review of After West (James Harms) by William La Ganza. - [A Sense of Rebellious Ecstasy: Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/a-sense-of-rebellious-ecstasy-your-presence-is-requested-at-suvanto-by-maile-chapman) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 review of Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto (Maile Chapman) by Michelle Bailat-Jones. - [It First Began in the Streets — Just Kids by Patti Smith](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/it-first-began-in-the-streets-just-kids-by-patti-smith) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 review of Just Kids (Patti Smith) by Greta Aart. - [Another Kind of Surrealism: Poetic Flare and Energies in Yang Zi’s Work](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/another-kind-of-surrealism-poetic-flare-and-energies-in-yang-zis-work) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 translator's note on Yang Zi by Ye Chun, Melissa Tuckey, and Fiona Sze-Lorrain. - [Introducing French Poet Emmanuel Moses](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/introducing-french-poet-emmanuel-moses) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 translator's note on Emmanuel Moses by Marilyn Hacker. Emmanuel Moses was born in Casablanca in 1959... - [Two Poems by Yves Bonnefoy: “From Wind and Smoke” and “The Painter Named Snow”](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/two-poems-by-yves-bonnefoy-from-wind-and-smoke-and-the-painter-named-snow) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 translator's note on Yves Bonnefoy, by Hoyt Rogers. - [Three Gorges Dam, China](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/three-gorges-dam-china) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 photography by Steven Benson. - [The Importance of Being Conscious: Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/the-importance-of-being-conscious-absence-of-mind-by-marilynne-robinson) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 review of Marilynne Robinson's Absence of Mind, by Mary Helen Stefaniak. - [Elegy for Girlhood: Find the Girl by Lightsey Darst](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/elegy-for-girlhood-find-the-girl-by-lightsey-darst) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 review of Find the Girl (Lightsey Darst) by Heid E. Erdrich. - [Notes: Towards an Embodied Art](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/notes-towards-an-embodied-art) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 essay by Lightsey Darst. A is small in her motions, pretty in her gestures, light in leaps... - [Reading Valéry in English](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/reading-valery-in-english) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translator's note, "Reading Valéry in English" by Tony Brinkley. - [Strolling out from the Self —Into the Deep Street: Seven Modern French Poets 1938-2008](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/strolling-out-from-the-self-into-the-deep-street-seven-modern-french-poets-1938-2008) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 review by John Taylor of Into the Deep Street: Seven Modern French Poets 1938-2008. - [Moon / Trăng](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/moon) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5. "Moon" by Nguyen Quyen translated by Nguyen Minh Phuong, Bruce Weigl, Nguyen Quyen & Hanh Nguyen Weigl. - [The Milk Current of Nothingness / Dòng sữa hư vô](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/the-milk-current-of-nothingness) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5. "The Milk Current of Nothingness" by Nguyen Quyen, translated by Nguyen Minh Phuong, Bruce Weigl, et. al. - [Village Tales / Cổ tích làng](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/village-tales) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation of Trần Quang Quý's "Village Tales" by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai and J. Fossenbell. - [Dreams in the Shape of Chopping Boards / Giấc mơ hình chiếc thớt](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/dreams-in-the-shape-of-chopping-boards) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation of Trần Quang Quý's "Dreams in the Shape of Chopping Boards" by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai and J. Fossenbell. - [After the Storm / Sau giông](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/after-the-storm) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Phan Nhiên Hạo by Hai-Dang Phan. A film was projected onto the torn curtains of clouds... - [At Meridian Zero / Ở Kinh Độ Không](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/at-meridian-zero) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Phan Nhiên Hạo by Hai-Dang Phan. Not enough time to search / before I myself become lost... - [Fish in a well / Cá Trong Giếng](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/fish-in-a-well) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Phan Nhiên Hạo by Hai-Dang Phan. When we were young my cousin / caught fish and fried them... - [Flying a single engine airplane, fuel almost empty, and need to pee / Bay phi cơ một máy, gần hết xăng, và hơi mắc tiểu](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/flying-a-single-engine-airplane-fuel-almost-empty-and-need-to-pee) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Phan Nhiên Hạo by Hai-Dang Phan. How much longer can I keep flying / this arthritic airplane... - [Sean Singer: Empathic Questioning in Joyful, Playful, Precise Poems](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/sean-singer-empathic-questioning-in-joyful-playful-precise-poems) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 interview with Sean Singer by Greta Aart. - [Continuing to Die: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/continuing-to-die) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 review of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby, by Malcolm Forbes. - [Glory and Dissolution – Invisible Strings by Jim Moore](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/invisible-strings-by-jim-moore) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 review of Jim Moore's Invisible Strings by Erica Goss. - [Touching Down in a Textual Moment: A Conversation with Cara Benson](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/touching-down-in-a-textual-moment-a-conversation-with-cara-benson) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 interview by Maryanne Hannan: "Touching Down in a Textual Moment: A Conversation with Cara Benson." - [Nihilistic Joy: Juvenilia by Ken Chen](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/juvenilia-by-ken-chen) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 review of Ken Chen's Juvenilia by William La Ganza. - [Poverties and Protest — Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 by Adrienne Rich](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/tonight-no-poetry-will-serve-poems-2007-2010-by-adrienne-rich) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 review by Christina Cook: "Poverties and Protest — Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 by Adrienne Rich." - [Between Feeling and Calculating: Reckoning by A.S. Penne](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/reckoning-by-a-s-penne) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 review by Michelle Bailat-Jones: "Between Feeling and Calculating: Reckoning by A.S. Penne." - [Life with Candor and Vitality: Water the Moon by Fiona Sze-Lorrain](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/life-with-candor-and-vitality-water-the-moon-by-fiona-sze-lorrain) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 review of Water the Moon (Fiona Sze-Lorrain) by Kate Welsh. - [The Arithmetic of Being in the World: King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/the-arithmetic-of-being-in-the-world-king-of-a-hundred-horsemen) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 review of King of a Hundred Horsemen (Marie Étienne) by John Taylor. - [A Sense of Questing: Kim Cheng Boey on Poetry](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/a-sense-of-questing-kim-cheng-boey-on-poetry) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 interview with Kim Cheng Boey by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé. - [Post-Modernismo: The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry Edited by Ilan Stavans](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/the-fsg-book-of-twentieth-century-latin-american-poetry-edited-by-ilan-stavans) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 review by Stephen Sossaman of The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry edited by Ilan Stevens. - [Spaces Unboundaried: The Water Books by Judith Vollmer](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/the-water-books-by-judith-vollmer) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 review of Judith Vollmer's The Water Books by Susan Shaw Sailer. - [Poetry of Identity — Dhaka Dust by Dilruba Ahmed](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/dhaka-dust-by-dilruba-ahmed) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 review of Dilruba Ahmed's Dhaka Dust by Kyle Churney. - [The House a Hut Built: I Live in a Hut by S.E. Smith](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/i-live-in-a-hut-by-s-e-smith) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 review by Darius Stewart of I Live in a Hut by S.E. Smith. - [Red Life, Red Kiss: Inmost by Jessica Fisher](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/inmost-by-jessica-fisher) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 review by Rachel Moritz of Inmost by Jessica Fisher. - [Memory of a Racist Past — Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town by Willie Morris](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/yazoo-integration-in-a-deep-southern-town-by-willie-morris) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 review by Nick J. Sciullo of Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town by Willie Morris. - [Imagination, Experience, and Knowledge — Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems by Ursula K. Le Guin](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/finding-my-elegy-new-and-selected-poems-by-ursula-k-le-guin) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 review by Callista Buchen of Ursula K. Le Guin's Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems. - [Tilting Fields: the Personal and the Political in Maxine Kumin’s Still to Mow](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/tilting-fields-the-personal-and-the-political-in-maxine-kumins-still-to-mow) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 review of Still to Mow (Maxine Kumin) by Molly Sutton Kiefer. - [Life on a Piecemeal Planet: God Particles by Thomas Lux](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/life-on-a-piecemeal-planet-god-particles-by-thomas-lux) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 review of God Particles (Thomas Lux) by Sally Molini. - [Naoyuki Ogino Speaks: Fusing Yin with Yang in Photographs](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/naoyuki-ogino-speaks-fusing-yin-with-yang-in-photographs) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 interview with photographer Naoyuki Ogino, by Greta Aart. - [from Life on Earth / 大地上的事情](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/from-life-on-earth) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Wei An by Thomas Moran. My observations suggest that ants build three different types of nests.... - [A Little Chat / Causerie](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/a-little-chat) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translation of Charles Baudelaire by Jan Owen. You are a lovely autumn sky, clear rose! - [Famine](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/famine) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Betsy Sholl. No one’s left who watched the crop / go to rot, till even its eye roots oozed. - [The Letter](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/the-letter) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Patricia Fargnoli. I discover the envelope beneath the mattress. / Who knows how long it has been there? - [Photography Exhibition](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/photography-exhibition) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Stephen Kessler. Vivian Maier, a Chicago nanny, took these pictures, so eloquently, anonymously... - [When We're Only Prisoners... / Quand nous ne sommes que prisonniers... ](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/when-were-only-prisoners) - French English Translation [d’un carnet daté du 12 novembre 1955] quand nous ne sommes que prisonniers de cette vie et des parois de cette vie rien sortir — ce n’est pas sortir — si chaque jour nous avons vécu d’une vie nous avons vécu mille vies brèves — coupées net le soir — par la - [The Journey / Le Voyage](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/the-journey) - French English Translation Rien ne distingue la route des accidents de ce ciel. Nous allons sur la paille molle et froide de ce ciel – à peine plus froide que nous, par grandes brassées, comme un feu rompu dont il faut franchir le genou, qui s’éclipse. Je tiens deux mains chaudes, deux mains de paille. - ["Here the light..." / « Ici le jour s’accorde... »](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/here-the-light) - French English Translation [d’un cahier daté du 5 août 1955] ici le jour s’accorde à mon pas. je glisse à la fois sur la neige du papier et sur cette terre sèche. sans avoir encore connu le répit je débouche toujours au même sommet — je mets plusieurs semaines à me retrouver à ce sommet. - [Reading New Poetry: Close Calls with Nonsense by Stephen Burt](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/reading-new-poetry-close-calls-with-nonsense-by-stephen-burt) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 review of Close Calls with Nonsense (Stephen Burt) by Stephen Sossaman. - [Listening: Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life by Artur Domosławski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/ryszard-kapuscinski-a-life-by-artur-domoslawski) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 review by Paul Kahn of Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life by Artur Domosławski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. - [Flash and Substance: Fanny Howe's The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/flash-and-substance-fanny-howes-the-winter-sun-notes-on-a-vocation) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 review of The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation (Fanny Howe) by Maryanne Hannan. - [An Abecedarian Marriage: Mary Jo Bang’s The Bride of E](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/an-abecedarian-marriage-mary-jo-bangs-the-bride-of-e) - Save for the notable exceptions of Psalm 119 and Chaucer’s “Prayer of Our Lady,” abecedarian poems have largely earned their fame by teaching young children their ABCs. Although the innocence of childhood certainly plays into the prosody and themes in The Bride of E, Mary Jo Bang’s sixth book of poetry, the collection itself could - [The Human in the Superhuman: Missing You Metropolis by Gary Jackson](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/missing-you-metropolis-by-gary-jackson) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 review of Gary Jackson's Missing You Metropolis by Kate Welsh. - [Arrangements of the Line: Ellen Bryant Voigt’s The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song ](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/the-art-of-syntax-rhythm-of-thought-rhythm-of-song) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 review of The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song (Ellen Bryant Voigt) by Erica Goss. - [An Arrow Flew out of the Cosmos — Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems by Tess Gallagher](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/midnight-lantern-new-and-selected-poems-by-tess-gallagher) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 review by Erica Goss of Tess Gallagher's Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems. - [Portraits of Mata Hari: The Creation of an Oriental Identity](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/portraits-of-mata-hari-the-creation-of-an-oriental-identity) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 essay by Jacquelyn White. Since her dramatic execution by firing squad in 1917, Mata Hari has become an object... - [Writing in the Margins](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/writing-in-the-margins) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 essay by Richard Jackson. On January 27, 1302, when Dante stopped in Siena, on his way home to his native Florence... - [from Vieuchange: A Novel II](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/from-vieuchange-a-novel-2) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 fiction by Brady Harrison. I recall catching glimpses of him, fragments, between the people passing on the sidewalk... - [Nights in the Gardens of Spain](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/nights-in-the-gardens-of-spain) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 fiction by Maura Stanton. The first century of an enchantment is always the easiest... - [Opening Windows - Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews, 1989-2010 by Geoff Dyer](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/otherwise-known-as-the-human-condition-by-geoff-dyer) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 review of Geoff Dyer's Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Paul Kahn. - [Reflections on a Fiction Writer's Craft —The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot by Charles Baxter](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/reflections-on-a-fiction-writers-craft-the-art-of-subtext-beyond-plot-by-charles-baxter) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 review of The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot (Charles Baxter) by Alice Tsay. - [The Grammar of Cheese](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/the-grammar-of-cheese) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 essay by Dion OReilly. There is only one way to teach grammar... - [A Sense of Life in the Living — Paris Portraits: Stories of Picasso, Matisse, Gertrude Stein, and Their Circle by Harriet Lane Levy](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/paris-portraits-by-harriet-lane-levy) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 review of Harriet Lane Levy's Paris Portraits: Stories of Picasso, Matisse, Gertrude Stein, and Their Circle by Kathleen Brewin Lewis. - [Understanding Familiarity and Distance: Gleb Shulpyakov and Symmetry](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/understanding-familiarity-and-distance-gleb-shulpyakov-and-symmetry) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 introduction on Gleb Shulpyakov by Christopher Mattison. - [André du Bouchet: The Outer Mindscape](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/andre-du-bouchet-the-outer-mindscape) - Translator's Note André du BouchetPHOTO COURTESY OF HOYT ROGERS An unjustly neglected giant of French literature — and obliquely, of several other literatures as well — André du Bouchet was one of the greatest innovators of twentieth-century letters. Trailblazing poet, maverick philosopher, multifarious critic, trenchant stylist, fearless anthologist, daring editor, prolific diarist, intrepid translator in - [The Play is the Stage and the World: Theater Director and Playwright Deloss Brown](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/theatre-director-and-playwright-deloss-brown) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 interview with theater director and playwright Deloss Brown by Greta Aart. - [Cityside](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/cityside) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 photography by Walter Luttenberger. Cityside - Venice, Italy. - [[Ragged plane-tree harder to drive away...] / [Platane loqueteux plus dur à chasser...]](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/ragged-plane-tree-harder-to-drive-away) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Vénus Khoury-Ghata by Marilyn Hacker. [Ragged plane-tree harder to drive away...] - [[Slept leaning on her own shoulder] / [Dormait sur sa propre épaule]](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/slept-leaning-on-her-own-shoulder) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Vénus Khoury-Ghata by Marilyn Hacker. [Slept leaning on her own shoulder] - [The Night Before Christmas](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/the-night-before-christmas) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 essay by Paul Crenshaw. My parents live at the edge of a small Arkansas town. Their house sits atop a hill... - [Wilde: More Lives Than One](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/wilde-more-lives-than-one) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 essay by Yahia Lababidi on Oscar Wilde. - [Title - Victoria Best Essay](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/title-victoria-best-essay) - [Clownfish](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/clownfish) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Ricardo Pau-Llosa. It is no joke / to startle forth... - [The Monument to the Unknown Buyer / Spomenik nepoznatom kupcu](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/the-monument-to-the-unknown-buyer) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 fiction by Robert Vrbnjak, translated by Dario Abram. - [Love for the World: Chinese Nature Writer Wei An](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/love-for-the-world-chinese-nature-writer-wei-an) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translator's note on Wei An by Thomas Moran. I visited Wei An’s apartment in the Beijing suburb of Changping... - [Woman and Cat / Femme et chatte](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/woman-and-cat) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Paul Verlaine by David Lunde. She played with her cat, and / it was marvelous seeing... - [Anguish / L'angoisse](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/anguish) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Paul Verlaine by David Lunde. Nature, nothing of you moves me, not the nourishing... - [Sad Song for Spring / 骂玉郎带感皇恩采茶歌 • 叙别](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/sad-song-for-spring) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Zhong Sicheng by David Lunde. Plum blossoms proclaim the sun's warm message... - [Day 16 / Día 16](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/day-16) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Márgara Russotto by Peter Kahn. Returning with the horses / at the beginning of all... - [Day 10 / Día 10](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/day-10) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Márgara Russotto by Peter Kahn. Oh, little angel of white death / How will I know you? - [Day 4 / Día 4](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/day-4) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Márgara Russotto by Peter Kahn. There are / bizarre chronicles / in this library... - [Day 2 / Día 2](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/day-2) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Márgara Russotto by Peter Kahn. It's a fleeting vision / the heavy back door... - [Contrasting Environments: Venezuelan Poet Márgara Russotto](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/contrasting-environments-venezuelan-poet-margara-russotto) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translator's note on Venezuelan Poet Márgara Russotto by Peter Kahn. - [Psalm 90 / Psaume 90](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/psalm-90) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Patrice de La Tour du Pin by Jennifer Grotz. Turned toward you I expose my burden... - [Psalm 88 / Psaume 88](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/psalm-88) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Patrice de La Tour du Pin by Jennifer Grotz. In hiding where you prepare each thing... - [Psalm 13 / Psaume 13](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/psalm-13) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Patrice de La Tour du Pin by Jennifer Grotz. It stirred, the heart of my human heart! - [[A straight line the city seen by heart] / [ligne droit la ville vue par cœur]](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/a-straight-line-the-city-seen-by-heart) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Vénus Khoury-Ghata by Marilyn Hacker. [A straight line the city seen by heart] - [Sadness at Parting / 四块玉•别情](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/sadness-at-parting) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 translation of Guan Hanqing by David Lunde. Ever since we said farewell / my heart has been wrenched by longing... - [Michael Gorra and Peter Brooks: More About Henry James](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/michael-gorra-and-peter-brooks-more-about-henry-james) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 review by William T. Walker of two books on Henry James (by Michael Gorra and Peter Brooks). - [Completed Story / Dovršena priča](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/completed-story) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation from the Croatian of Robert Vrbnjak's "Completed Story," by Branka Cubrilo. - [Paintings, 2005-2012](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/paintings-2005-2012) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 art by Margaret Garrett. My childhood was spent dancing; it was my first love and my first career... - [Baritone in the Mongolian Steppes](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/baritone-in-the-mongolian-steppes) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 essay by Morris Rossabi. As a boy, Amartuvshin Enkhbat sang traditional Mongolian “long songs”... - [Dividing Up the World Between Us](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/dividing-up-the-world-between-us) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 essay by Sari Fordham. In the savannas of western Uganda, a family of elephants plods through the dust... - [My Possum Problem, and How it Finally Ended](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/my-possum-problem-and-how-it-finally-ended) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 essay by Paul Crenshaw. The first time I saw the possum I screamed like a girl and ran back inside... - [The Soldier's Hundredth Birthday Cake](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/the-soldiers-hundredth-birthday-cake) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by David Shumate. He is seated at a table in a house that smells of a familiar gravy. He can’t recall the names... - [A Good Idea](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/a-good-idea) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by David Shumate. A good idea presents itself as a man in a gray suit traveling by train. He’s got two... - [Wooden Synagogue](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/wooden-synagogue) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Lee Sharkey. A single patch of cornflower blue left on the crumbling plaster, / one wide brushstroke... - [In the Capital of a Small Republic](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/in-the-capital-of-a-small-republic) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Lee Sharkey. Tonight I am walking backwards / If I were blind I would know better than to do this... - [The de Havilland Comets](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/the-de-havilland-comets) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Margo Schilpp. All through those last flights the cracks spread / like tiny silver zippers... - [The madmen among us](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/the-madmen-among-us) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Victor David Sandiego. The morning is fragrant and urgent; you leap from the blankets, rattle bed posts... - [Incrimination](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/incrimination) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Victor David Sandiego. Freshly fallen from the mountain, Jedidiah in the thick garden moonlight... - [Stitches](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/stitches) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Rebecca Reynolds. This too is your gift your hurt / the indignation of the brain, cut into / and repaired... - [Is and Is Not](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/is-and-is-not) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Rebecca Reynolds. I cannot look for long at an object before it becomes the world. / Even if probability... - [Mourner with Cowl, Hands in his Sleeves](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/mourner-with-cowl-hands-in-his-sleeves) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Emilia Phillips. The docent says I can’t have a pen / in this room, I can’t write / with a pen — - [Winter](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/winter) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Jean-Paul Pecqueur. When St. Francis spoke to the birds / the birds spoke back. Soon thereafter... - [The Natural World](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/the-natural-world) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Jean-Paul Pecqueur. A bodybuilder in a green vest / is a part of the natural world. - [An Alternate History of Rock & Roll](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/an-alternate-history-of-rock-and-roll) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Jean-Paul Pecqueur. We don’t always get what we want, / the birdfeeder made of recycled plastic... - [A Skeleton, A Dawn](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/a-skeleton-a-dawn) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Laura McKee. Who cares about the beginning. You can see / it’s attached right here. The rising sun... - [Thanksgiving](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/thanksgiving) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Alec Sherman. There is still an irritant — the itch / inside the pearl, the child / hiding in the pile of leaves... - [Popular History](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/popular-history) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Alec Sherman. Let's say the wolf shows up and wants to talk shop. / There's an ordinary latch on your door... - [on meeting Cy Twombly's art the day before he died](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/on-meeting-cy-twomblys-art-the-day-before-he-died) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Sue Goyette. Doesn’t it make sense that when read out loud, / his name, with one foot in the boat, looks up. - [medicate](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/medicate) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Sue Goyette. We were lucky with the dahlias, turning up / just in time to see them stretch the last curve... - [Dance Rehearsal: Middle Age](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/dance-rehearsal-middle-age) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Sue Goyette. The trees have stepped back. Her face is rehearsing / its solo. - [Wounded Clown, 1939](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/wounded-clown-1939) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Patricia Fargnoli. Sad clown, his wife, their child. / They are, to each other, the world. - [Aubade I](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/aubade-i) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Patricia Fargnoli. In the night I could hear the waves / though they were half a mile away... - [Green Bird](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/green-bird) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Don Domanski. this forest has the weight of a book at rest... - [Bardo](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/bardo) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Don Domanski. first light of day inscribed on night’s gravity / sweet breath of noumena between the pines... - [Beloved, again](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/beloved-again) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Méira Cook. From far away the garden is empty as a hand / cupping air. Hello again, / Hello, it’s me... - [poem](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/poem-quan-barry) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Quan Barry. After a while the cab pulls onto the highway, stops behind a line of cars waiting to pay a toll... - [Freedom, WI](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/freedom-wi) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 fiction by Quan Barry. "I know we have only just met,” Dúc says in his slightly musical English... - [effigy](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/effigy) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Quan Barry. [in the middle of the concrete floor a drain]...years later the who was crouched there paints... - [[The stale bread on the windowsill...] / [Le pain rassis sur le muret...]](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/the-stale-bread-on-the-windowsill) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Vénus Khoury-Ghata by Marilyn Hacker. [The stale bread on the windowsill...] - [[The mother’s fingers drew us out of the hearth...] / [Les doigts de la mère nous retiraient de l’âtre...]](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/the-mothers-fingers-drew-us-out-of-the-hearth) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Vénus Khoury-Ghata by Marilyn Hacker. [The mother’s fingers drew us out of the hearth...] - [[The earth in those days gathered up other earths] / [La terre à l’époque cumulait les terres]](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/the-earth-in-those-days-gathered-up-other-earths) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Vénus Khoury-Ghata by Marilyn Hacker. [The earth in those days gathered up other earths] - [[The armies of dust raised by her broom...] / [Les armées de poussières soulevées par son balai...]](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/the-armies-of-dust-raised-by-her-broom) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Vénus Khoury-Ghata by Marilyn Hacker. [The armies of dust raised by her broom...] - [F](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/f-tedi-lopez-mills) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Tedi López Mills by Wendy Burk. Almost the world within, almost a garden the evasive plain... - [D](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/d-tedi-lopez-mills) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Tedi López Mills by Wendy Burk. Provincia deserta, , banks of an oily, lilac-swirling stream, water... - [C](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/c-tedi-lopez-mills) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Tedi López Mills by Wendy Burk. Waning memory, symbolist attribute of its river, though it may prowl... - [Expressing a River of Language: Tedi López Mills](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/expressing-a-river-of-language-tedi-lopez-mills) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translator's note on Tedi López Mills by Wendy Burk. These four poems are from Tedi López Mills’ eighth book... - [B](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/b-tedi-lopez-mills) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Tedi López Mills by Wendy Burk. Consider it: my bit of earth, my sparse-leaved paradise / in reverse... - [Where is Love's Labor's Won?](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/where-is-loves-labors-won) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 essay by Deloss Brown. Anybody reading this probably knows that Love’s Labor’s Won is included in Meres’ 1598 list... - [The Secret Addressee: Six Poems by Osip Mandelshtam](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/the-secret-addressee-six-poems-by-osip-mandelshtam) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 translator's note on Osip Mandelshtam, translated by Tony Brinkley and Raina Kostova. - [Waiting for the Shrink](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/waiting-for-the-shrink) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Betsy Sholl. I can name four rivers, the president, I know what day it is, but don’t ask me if art can save... - [The Exchange](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/the-exchange) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Betsy Sholl. Because I didn’t buy the copper hen hung by a thread from the shop’s tin ceiling, little bird... - [Among the Many](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/among-the-many) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Betsy Sholl. My failed fish poem — its cabana-clothed creatures in bold stripes and yellow bull’s-eyes like... - [La historia de los ángeles](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/la-historia-de-los-angeles) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Victor David Sandiego. It goes: / We are made of reeds and pull / the air into our lungs through them; we descend / from a long line of lamps with wicks and oil - [False Asphalt](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/false-asphalt) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Rebecca Reynolds. This is one lettuce you’re not going to squeeze, Vanilla said... - [Epistle](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/epistle) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Rebecca Reynolds...For all your talk of nerves, I am inveterate. Though I must get over... - ["The Moment of Influence Opens, Then Ends''](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/the-moment-of-influence-opens-then-ends) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Laura McKee. During a flood, our house catches fire. / Smell of burnt sugar. The leaves are finally falling. - [Switching Forever Between Two Directions / Toledo](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/switching-forever-between-two-directions-toledo) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Laura McKee. We have divided everything and I will stay here. / At the top of an old fortress... - [Vegetation Blues](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/vegetation-blues) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Dorianne Laux. Someone tore a square out of the sidewalk / and planted a ginkgo, tamped a few... - [The Cherry Tree](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/the-cherry-tree) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Dorianne Laux. The birds are at the cherries, crying / and thrashing, tapping at the tough skins,.. - [Redeployment to the Field of Good Intentions](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/redeployment-to-the-field-of-good-intentions) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Margot Schilpp. Why are you all in a dither? The moment Is the peace you seek, everywhere And always. Amen... - [from The voice is the last we forget to remember](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/from-the-voice-is-the-last-we-forget-to-remember) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Lee Sharkey. Every feather of the small gray bird is laid in a circle on the ground. No sign... - [It Arrives](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/it-arrives) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Lee Sharkey. Her head like a turtle. Cannot be entered / But it houses everything I need to know... - [Alternate Worlds](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/alternate-worlds) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Patricia Fargnoli. They are what fuels the dark, what lies beyond the sheer curtains... - [The Parents, circa 1942](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/the-parents-circa-1942) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Patricia Fargnoli. He never showed up when he said he would — his absence a chime in a clock with no face... - [Debriefing](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/debriefing) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 story by contributing editor Mary Helen Stefaniak. She sat on her suitcase in the shade of the ruined minaret... - [Turturro](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/turturro) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 fiction by Daniel Zahno translated by the 2011 Advanced German Through Translation seminar at Hunter College. - [The Two Old Maids / Les deux vieilles demoiselles](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/the-two-old-maids) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 fiction by C.F. Ramuz, translated by Michelle Bailat-Jones. They were needleworkers, which meant that... - [may 5, 2002 / 5 de mayo 2002](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/may-5-2002) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Lila Zemborain by Mariela Méndez and Daniel Coudriet. and then, entering the dark night of the soul... - [april 17, 2002 / 17 de abril 2002](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/april-17-2002) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Lila Zemborain by Mariela Méndez and Daniel Coudriet. another landscape can be seen now in the heart... - [april 14, 2002 / 14 de abril 2002](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/april-14-2002) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Lila Zemborain by Mariela Méndez and Daniel Coudriet. the movement of time toward evening, golden... - [april 8, 2002 / 8 de abril 2002](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/april-8-2002) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Lila Zemborain by Mariela Méndez and Daniel Coudriet. to decipher the hieroglyphs of the inner book... - [march 27, 2002 / 27 de marzo 2002](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/march-27-2002) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Lila Zemborain by Mariela Méndez and Daniel Coudriet. suddenly a circuit is installed... - [Writing in the Face of Chaos: Poet Lila Zemborain](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/writing-in-the-face-of-chaos-poet-lila-zemborain) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translator's note on Lila Zemborain by Mariela Méndez and Daniel Coudriet. - [from Affectionate Taxes to France / Tendres impôts à la France](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/from-affectionate-taxes-to-france) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Rainer Maria Rilke by Susanne Petermann. Let’s stay by the lamp, let words be few. / Being silent... - [Wandering in the South City / 徘徊在城南](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/wandering-in-the-south-city) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Lu Ye by Dian Li. I encounter him again: about forty years old, standing tall... - [Beauty Writer and Safe Meat / 美女作家与放心肉 ](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/beauty-writer-and-safe-meat) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Lu Ye by Dian Li. Among women I know, some are beautiful but are not writers... - [A Soldier is Back / Павло Гірник Дім](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/a-soldier-is-back) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Pavlo Hirynk by Svetlana Lavochkina. - [The Works of the Unconscious / Les œuvres de l'inconscient ](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/the-works-of-the-unconscious) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Yves Bonnefoy by Hoyt Rogers. In the penumbra, I discover large books, stacked on tables in a jumble... - [Leaving the Garden, in the Snow / Sortie du jardin sous la neige ](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/leaving-the-garden-in-the-snow) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Yves Bonnefoy by Hoyt Rogers. Another painter, one who finds it hard to understand... - [The Record](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/the-record) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Stephen Kessler. The record becomes increasingly random, jumping from book to book... - [Spleen](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/spleen) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translation of Charles Baudelaire by David Lunde. - [Empire](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/empire) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Dorianne Laux. Outside the New York City Library, red leaves / were falling from the blue sky... - [from Dolor Diary](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/from-dolor-diary) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Youna Kwak. The body exposed. Nerve / rending filaments... - [Portfolio](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/portfolio-shane-welch) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 photography by Shane Welch. - ["The Severed Parts Together": Adaptation, Mediation, and Textuality in Waves](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/the-severed-parts-together-adaptation-mediation-and-textuality-in-waves) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 essay by Kellie A. Mecleary. On March 10, 2006, reporter Dominic Cavendish of the London newspaper, The Telegraph... - [Four "Overdue Poems About the Caribbean Sea" by René Depestre](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/four-overdue-poems-about-the-caribbean-sea-by-rene-depestre) - Translator's Note René Depestre © Oswaldo Salas D.R. He’s an activist. An idealist. A wanderer. A poet. René Depestre, born with a passion for storytelling and poetry, and stoked by the fire of youth, published his first collection of poems at nineteen. Riding on the success of his book, he created a revolutionary literary journal - [Injustified](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/injustified) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 art by Dominic Corrigan. Since 2009 I have been living in Sligo, on the West Coast of Ireland... - [Two Translations from Yves Bonnefoy's Le Digamma](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/two-translations-from-yves-bonnefoys-le-digamma) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translator's note on Yves Bonnefoy by Hoyt Rogers. Yves Bonnefoy will be celebrating his ninetieth birthday in June... - [The "New Romanticism" — Edward Durell Stone: Modernism's Populist Architect by Mary Anne Hunting](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/edward-durell-stone-by-mary-anne-hunting) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 review by Robert Boucheron of Edward Durell Stone: Modernism's Populist Architect by Mary Anne Hunting. - [(To Be Seen by Iamos, Calchas and Teiresias](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/to-be-seen-by-iamos-calchas-and-teiresias) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Eileen Tabios. He carves work that will immortalize... - [Реки, повесть / from Rivers, A Story](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/from-rivers-a-story) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 fiction by Evgeny Grishkovets, translated by Adrienne Celt. - [On "Rivers, A Story"](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/on-rivers-a-story) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 translator's note on Evgeny Grishkovet's "Rivers, A Story" by Adrienne Celt. - [The Air is Full of Our Cries: Samuel Beckett's Voices](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/the-air-is-full-of-our-cries-samuel-becketts-voices) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 essay by Mary P. Noonan. In July 2006, I finally made my pilgrimage to Beckett’s grave in Montparnasse cemetery. - [(Ethos](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/ethos) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Eileen Tabios. missing the tip / of her nose... - [Where Pavement Ends](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/where-pavement-ends) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 photography by Tricia Louvar. - [Polaroids](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/polaroids) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 photography by Olivier Schwartz. - [Fluid](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/fluid) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 art by Christina Narwicz. Through organic forms and abstracted patterns, I seek to create a visual vocabulary... - [The Shaman's Eye](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/the-shamans-eye) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 fiction by Frank Scozzari. The chest wound was deep and Ben Gordon knew he had to stop the bleeding... - [Unfinished Mountain Finished with Words](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/unfinished-mountain-finished-with-words) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Susan Tichy.Scattered woods below forest — signed / with precise top rims... - [Murray Wrote Mountaineering in Scotland](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/murray-wrote-mountaineering-in-scotland) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Susan Tichy. Murray wrote Mountaineering in Scotland in a German P.O.W. camp... - [Geologue Picks Up a Pebble and Says to Us ‘See!’](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/geologue-picks-up-a-pebble-and-says-to-us-see) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Susan Tichy. ‘I will visit the mountains with great Exactness’ - [Rockinghorse Sea](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/rockinghorse-sea) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Terese Svoboda. Light pushes the vessel into wave / after wave... - [Winning with Victor Hugo](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/winning-with-victor-hugo) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Ron Padgett. Too much Victor Hugo, and that wardrobe! - [It All Depends](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/it-all-depends) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Ron Padgett. But it is not love that I would speak of... - [On Refusing to Believe the Spirit Will Not Be Manifest](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/on-refusing-to-believe-the-spirit-will-not-be-manifest) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Lynne Knight. That night the owls called back and forth... - [Mused a Little Space](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/mused-a-little-space) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Sarah Gridley. Black columns of cream and barley. Columns of water or time marked valuable. - [Every Hollow Holds a Hallow](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/every-hollow-holds-a-hallow) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Sarah Gridley. Between the master craftsman and the apprentice, indenture was the cutting apart — - [What My Father Eats](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/what-my-father-eats) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Joanne Diaz. Barely anything, but when he does feel a pang... - [The House for Us](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/the-house-for-us) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Sarah Crossland. Made by the body, a house / is read - [Lyrical Mystery of Time and Space: Conversing with Contemporary Chinese Poet Bai Hua](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/lyrical-mystery-of-time-and-space-conversing-with-contemporary-chinese-poet-bai-hua) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 interview with Chinese poet Bai Hua, by Greta Aart (nom-de-plume of Fiona Sze-Lorrain). - [Objectively Dangerous: There's the Hand and There's the Arid Chair by Tomaž Šalamun](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/objectively-dangerous-theres-the-hand-and-theres-the-arid-chair) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 review of Tomaž Šalamun's There's the Hand and There's the Arid Chair, by Erica Mena. - [Opening Excerpt from Mural / جداريَّة](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/opening-excerpt-from-mural) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah. This is your name / a woman said and disappeared... - [In this very wide or very ancient land... / dans ce pays très vaste ou très vieux...](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/in-this-very-wide-or-very-ancient-land) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Auxeméry, translated by Nathaniel Tarn. in this very wide or very ancient land... - [there is that transparency... / il y a cette transparence...](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/there-is-that-transparency) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Auxeméry, translated by Nathaniel Tarn. there is that transparency... - [Meenala, County Donegal](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/meenala-county-donegal) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Betsy Sholl. We slept in the house like birds / nestled on a ship's mast, waves... - [(October 30) / (30 octobre)](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/october-30) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Chantal Dupuy-Dunier by Darla Himeles with Robyn Newkumet. Constant questioning... - [(August 26) / (26 août)](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/august-26) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Chantal Dupuy-Dunier by Darla Himeles with Robyn Newkumet. August frays. / No more courtyard breakfasts... - [(August 6) / (6 août)](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/august-6) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Chantal Dupuy-Dunier by Darla Himeles with Robyn Newkumet. Those who believe in immortality... - [(June 11) / (11 juin)](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/june-11) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Chantal Dupuy-Dunier by Darla Himeles with Robyn Newkumet. Head pressed in the hollow of your left hand... - [(June 6) / (6 juin)](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/june-6) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Chantal Dupuy-Dunier by Darla Himeles with Robyn Newkumet. As soon as the child says / You are... - [(April 24) / (24 avril)](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/april-24) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Chantal Dupuy-Dunier by Darla Himeles with Robyn Newkumet. Your back, a shifting shield... - [Chantal Dupuy-Dunier: Caress the Essence of Experience](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/chantal-dupuy-dunier-caress-the-essence-of-experience) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translator's note on Chantal Dupuy-Dunier by Darla Himeles. - [Urban Celestial](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/urban-celestial) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Jeffrey Greene. Leave this body out all night / in frost in the leaves. - [On a Coetzee Reading Group](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/on-a-coetzee-reading-group) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Jeffrey Greene. Richard insists, "Nothing is something," when our group of readers plumb... - [Initiations](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/initiations) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 fiction by Perle Besserman. ouisa Formann grew up on the German side of the German-Polish border among a contentious mélange of Kabbalists... - [In Central Asia Nomadic Horsemen](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/in-central-asia-nomadic-horsemen) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Amy Beeder. — A home without a morin khuur is like a widow // In Central Asia... - [Ancient Roman Bones Reveal Malaria: A Love Song](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/ancient-roman-bones-reveal-malaria-a-love-song) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Amy Beeder. How like a hive, his body — so busy with rigor, / with languor... - [from Windows / Les Fenêtres](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/from-windows) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Rainer Maria Rilke by Susanne Petermann. You ask me, strange window, to wait; / already... - [The Fifth Duino Elegy / Die Fünfte Elegie](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/the-fifth-duino-elegy) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from the German by Tony Brinkley and Leonore Hildebrandt. - [On Translating Rilke's Duineser Elegien](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/on-translating-rilkes-duineser-elegien) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 translator's note on Rainer Maria Rilke, by Tony Brinkley and Leonore Hildebrandt. - [A Passage Opens: Translating Rainer Maria Rilke](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/a-passage-opens-translating-rainer-maria-rilke) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translator's note on Rainer Maria Rilke by Susanne Petermann. Between visits to a sanatorium... - [The Painter Named Snow / Le peintre dont le nom est la neige](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/the-painter-named-snow) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Yves Bonnefoy, translated by Hoyt Rogers. What a purple over there, on the crumbled side of the sky… - [From Wind and Smoke / De vent et de fumée](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/from-wind-and-smoke) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Yves Bonnefoy, translated by Hoyt Rogers. The Idea, some have thought, is the measure of all things.... - ['Walked with Their Feet, Warred with Their Arms'](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/walked-with-their-feet-warred-with-their-arms) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Susan Tichy. So a kid enlists in the Air Force to complete his education / in the etymological fine points... - [Ballast](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/ballast) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Susan Tichy. Row of boulders at the glacier's edge / ‘Darwin turns his horse inland’... - [An Old Scat Full of Red Fur](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/an-old-scat-full-of-red-fur) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Susan Tichy. How old is the song called The Wars Are Not Over? / Black letter, white letter, flimsy sheets... - [Silk Egg](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/silk-egg) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 fiction by Eileen Tabios. At the most infinitesimal hint of light, she closed like a purple mirabilis jalapa... - [Sweet Habit of the Blood](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/sweet-habit-of-the-blood) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Sarah Gridley. Viburnum fairy globe. In outer robing it is vivid: a cardinal meal in the drifting bright. .. - [On Race Road](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/on-race-road) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Rick Barot. On the day she died, not knowing this would be the day, he coaxed her outside and they worked... - [Annunciation](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/annunciation) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Rick Barot. It is not always joy that is announced to you in the mundane light. Not always a wing or a flood... - [Description of a Mask of a Fierce Air Eater / Description d’un masque de féroce mangeur d’air](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/description-of-a-mask-of-a-fierce-air-eater) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 introduction to poet Auxeméry by Julien Ségura. - [Trailer](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/trailer) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 essay by Jon Pineda. There are burn marks where the floor is concave. The green carpet melted... - [The Music of Coping — Bitter Acoustic by Sharon Fagan McDermott ](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/bitter-acoustic-by-sharon-fagan-mcdermott) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 review of Sharon McDermott's Bitter Acoustic by Taylor Hagood. - [“Those Savages — That’s Us”](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/those-savages-thats-us) - For about twenty years, into the mid-1970s, Brecht’s theatre achieved something like iconic status, partly due to the impact of two Berliner Ensemble productions at the International Theatre Festival in Paris: Mother Courage in 1954; in 1955, and markedly different, The Caucasian Chalk Circle. One more sombre and realist in performance, the other more parabolic - [[a cottage swaying] / качается домик](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/a-cottage-swaying) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Gleb Shulpyakov by Christopher Mattison. a cottage swaying / on a dime store... - [SPAM (or Another Version of Meat in a Can) / Simmenthal](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/spam-or-another-version-of-meat-in-a-can) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Francesca Pellegrino by Adria Bernardi. It’s always / the same routine... - [Sim Sala Bim / Simsalabim](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/sim-sala-bim) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Francesca Pellegrino by Adria Bernardi. I know some of the illusionist’s tricks... - [Eeny, meeny, miny, moe / Orsù, orsù, dai un bacio a chi vuoi tu](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/eeny-meeny-miny-moe) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Francesca Pellegrino by Adria Bernardi. Sometimes I lose track of my heart / in the midst... - [Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire (Firestarters) / Caldarroste beginner](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/chestnuts-roasting-on-an-open-fire-firestarters) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Francesca Pellegrino by Adria Bernardi. Winter / is never bothered by haste / in its realm... - [Alkaseltzer](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/alkaseltzer) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Francesca Pellegrino by Adria Bernardi. It seemed I was on glass with words... - [The Insatiable Fields](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/12/the-insatiable-fields) - Cerise Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 4 Issue 12 poem by Paula Bohince. The insatiable fields that swallow / whole snakes and groundhogs, I’ve seen them — - [Lyrics to the Tune "Sheng Zha Zi" / 生查子·元夕](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/lyrics-to-the-tune-sheng-zha-zi) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Ouyang Xiu by David Lunde. On last year's First Full Moon / lanterns lit the flower-market... - [Spring Song / 双调 · 拔不断 · 四景之一](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/spring-song) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Yao Sui by David Lunde. The grass grows lush / beneath a leisurely sun; / boys and girls frolic... - [[poetry grows from nothing —] / поэзия растёт из ничего —](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/poetry-grows-from-nothing) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Gleb Shulpyakov by Christopher Mattison. poetry grows from nothing — / we take a hanging picture... - [[in my corner — built of logs, muffled — ] / в моём углу — бревенчатом, глухом —](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/in-my-corner-built-of-logs-muffled) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Gleb Shulpyakov by Christopher Mattison. in my corner — built of logs, muffled — / so silent... - [[a crow leaps from one] / ворона прыгает с одной](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/a-crow-leaps-from-one) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Gleb Shulpyakov by Christopher Mattison. a crow leaps from one / heaving branch to another — - [Armenian Triptych / армянский триптих](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/armenian-triptych) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Gleb Shulpyakov by Christopher Mattison. ararat — / I pull down your cap / from a sleeve... - [The Freedom of Secret Selves — Poet Phan Nhiên Hạo](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/the-freedom-of-secret-selves-poet-phan-nhien-hao) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translator's note on Phan Nhiên Hạo by Hai-Dang Phan. - [Five Poems from Francesca Pellegrino's Chernobylove ­– The day after the wind ](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/five-poems-from-francesca-pellegrinos-chernobylove-the-day-after-the-wind) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translator's note on Francesca Pellegrino by Adria Bernardi. - [And like in a poem you shall be / A jak w wierszu będziesz](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/and-like-in-a-poem-you-shall-be) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Jadwiga Grabarz by Dominika Brathwaite. Vast track of a house thrown onto a table, / door slamming... - [Spring, South of the Yangzi / 江南春](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/spring-south-of-the-yangzi) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 translation of Du Mu by David Lunde. A thousand miles / of warbling nightingales... - [Judas, If You Want](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/judas-if-you-want) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Christopher Howell. In a town you know / a man in green walks down a road / and stops... - [Diminishing Returns](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/diminishing-returns) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Christopher Howell. A crow sits in the dark, thinking / I’m an owl scouring this field for mice. - [Hostage Valley: Hubris and Humility at Germany’s Largest Man-made Lake](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/hostage-valley) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 essay by Steven Matthew Brown. We are eight in all, careening in an unventilated box along dirt roads... - [Confluence — New York](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/confluence-new-york) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 photography by Robert Vizzini. - [The Width of the Line](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/the-width-of-the-line) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 photography by Massimo Mastrorillo. - [Excursions](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/excursions) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 art by Leonard Kogan. - [Painting with Paper](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/painting-with-paper) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 art by Megan Coyle. - [The Imaginary City](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/the-imaginary-city) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 art by Robert Boucheron. - [The Interpretation of Dreams](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/the-interpretation-of-dreams) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 fiction by J.M. Villaverde. Long before the town of Mijas in southern Spain became a lure for tourists and home... - [Variation on a Fable](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/variation-on-a-fable) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 fiction by Jaydn DeWald. When Fannie and I moved to Chicago, to a spacious brick-and-mortar loft in the West Loop... - [Lineage](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/lineage) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 fiction by Jaydn DeWald. Mother’s rebellious, more rebellious than me, though less rebellious than Father... - [Aquarela do San Francisco](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/aquarela-do-san-francisco) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 fiction by Jaydn DeWald. We see the man standing on the corner of 24th and Mission, hailing a cab... - [Grandma Marija's Ghost](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/grandma-marijas-ghost) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 fiction by Jozefina Cutura. On lazy Sunday mornings I loved to spy through the window as Grandma Marija tucked... - [By the Waterfall](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/by-the-waterfall) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 fiction by Jozefina Cutura. When I opened the window to check on the noise outside, there was Bojan yet again... - [Culled from May: red](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/culled-from-may-red) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Rusty Morrison. What sickness hears without sense or awareness... - [Culled from February: the look back](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/culled-from-february-the-look-back) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Rusty Morrison. Accident: a sapling climbs out of earth by happenstance... - [Lullaby](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/lullaby) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Wendy Mnookin. The grass grows, uncut, promissory. / The sky is careful... - [Three Lives](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/three-lives) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Wendy Mnookin. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway / and Hadley posted their cat in the crib... - [If It's You](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/if-its-you) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Wendy Mnookin. Flung on the grass / all those droplets of dew / wave their tickets... - [Horse, Rider](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/horse-rider) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Mia Ayumi Malhotra. Cut clean from the rump, the tail tosses / and vanishes. - [Cassia Fragrance / 桂花的清香](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/cassia-fragrance) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translation from the Chinese of Yi Lu's "Cassia Fragrance" by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. - [The Hudson River](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/the-hudson-river-photography-by-joseph-squillante) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 photography by Joseph Squillante. The Hudson River. - [Choosing My Words](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/choosing-my-words) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Laura Mullen. Everywhere that year the same array it seemed of “semi-private” or see-through curtains for sale... - [Diaspora](https://www.cerisepress.com/05/13/diaspora) - Cerise Press, Summer 2013, Vol. 5 Issue 13 poem by Emilia Phillips. When the world goes pearly // in the helio range with ash and element... - [Encarnar: El Águila](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/encarnar-el-aguila) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Along roads named after kings / there were lines, lights, electrical fields... - [Encounters With the Terrestrial — Death Valley National Park](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/encounters-with-the-terrestrial-death-valley-national-park) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 photography by Robert Vizzini on Death Valley National Park. - [Inheritance](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/inheritance) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 fiction by J.M. Villaverde. I inherited this story from my mother who got it from her mother; my grandmother... - [Witness](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/witness) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Barbara Yien. In November the calves seemed stronger. I had not read a book in sixty days... - [Participant](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/participant) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Barbara Yien. If we follow her we'll change her story. Bits of it were already wavering... - [Wrong Sonnet: Mystery](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/wrong-sonnet-mystery) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Kathleen Winters. If ghosts are real, they’re professional strangers. If real, I owe you an apology... - [The Flammable Hours](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/the-flammable-hours) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Kathleen Winters. Unexpected, blooming in the night, a remembered declension, wind in the backyard... - [Beginning on a Line by Tomas Tranströmer](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/beginning-on-a-line-by-tomas-transtromer) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by David Welch. I drive through the village at night, the houses rise up — The rising pricks of paled stars... - [Prayer for Healing Arrythmia](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/prayer-for-healing-arrythmia) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Karen An-Hwei Lee. Pray while waiting at the airport under a defibrillator in glass adorned with the image of a heart... - [Choreography of Hidden Parts II](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/choreography-of-hidden-parts-ii) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Karen An-Hwei Lee. Black anisette tea, ladainha, a drum, and one roda. - [Choreography of Hidden Parts I](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/choreography-of-hidden-parts-i) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Karen An-Hwei Lee. Huerta is a fisherman who loves a woman with auburn hair... - [The Mysteries of Aurora](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/the-mysteries-of-aurora) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Stuart Dischell. It is never winter where Aurora lives. / The trees keep their leaves to themselves. - [Near Antwerp](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/near-antwerp) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Kurt Brown. At Mortsel-Oude God station the round white face of a clock declares the hour... - [For a Woman in Père Lachaise](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/for-a-woman-in-pere-lachaise) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Kurt Brown. She’s the only one who seems to know what’s happening. Otherwise, this group sculpture here at... - [from Fox Breath](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/from-fox-breath) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 photography by Nicholas Walton-Healey. - [Tibouchina Flower / Tibuchina](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/tibuchina-tibouchina-flower) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Pura López-Colomé translated by Forrest Gander. - [Slave Revolts At the Dinner Table](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/slave-revolts-at-the-dinner-table) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 essay by Theresa Urbainczyk.Finding out about slaves in antiquity is not easy... - [Xue Rou: Flesh and Blood](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/xue-rou-flesh-and-blood) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Karen An-Hwei Lee. To the living / indecipherable / sun body's rosetta: / Your flesh of words... - [On Schadenfreude](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/on-schadenfreude) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Karen An-Hwei Lee. Schadenfreude is Oscar says my machine translator / a small orange fish... - [Albero Della Vita](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/albero-della-vita) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Virginia Konchan. When you deny me, the world denies me. / I am embraced by a canopy of skulls. - [Swiftly, in an ice mistake](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/swiftly-in-an-ice-mistake) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Lightsey Darst. Manipulate letters to perform miracles. / You could raise the dead. In the real world. - [In which we inherit the earth](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/in-which-we-inherit-the-earth) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Lightsey Darst. & what anguish, unreeled in / — dark dissolves of eyes. // It takes years... - [Corrigan's Compass](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/corrigans-compass) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2012-13, Vol. 4 Issue 11 poem by Kurt Brown. Venus is the only planet that rotates counter clockwise, / like one of those soccer... - [Cuba](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/cuba) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 photography by Ghada Khunji. - [from New Mills and Close By](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/from-new-mills-and-close-by) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 photography by Eleanor Leonne Bennett. - [The Fine Ship / Le Beau navire](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/the-fine-ship) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translation of Charles Baudelaire by Jan Owen. Soft enchantress, let me list the truth! - [Anatomy of a Perfect Film: Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/anatomy-of-a-perfect-film-robert-bressons-a-man-escaped) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 film essay on Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped, by Jose-Luis Moctezuma. - [Galia](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/galia) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 fiction by Cynthia Morrison Phoel. Galia’s parents were the kind who bought the bar of chocolate before she asked... - [Bluets by Maggie Nelson](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/bluets-by-maggie-nelson) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 review of Maggie Nelson's Bluets by Éireann Lorsung. - [Awaiting the Age of the Blue Train](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/awaiting-the-age-of-the-blue-train) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 fiction by Kirk Curnutt. Raymond and I celebrate our windfall with the latest Parisian rage. - [A Poet of Medieval Spain](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/a-poet-of-medieval-spain) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Jennifer Barber. The caliph gone. The moon unrisen in the garden. In the tall grass, a gazelle... - [The Feel of Nature in Yi Lu’s Work: Existence in its Grandeur and Small Moments](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/the-feel-of-nature-in-yi-lus-work-existence-in-its-grandeur-and-small-moments) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translator's note, "Yi Lu and Nature: Existence in its Grandeur and Small Moments" by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. - [Four Translations from Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/four-translations-from-les-fleurs-du-mal-by-charles-baudelaire) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translator's note on Charles Baudelaire by Jan Owen. In translating Baudelaire, I kept to traditional... - [Flags](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/flags) - Everyone was dressed in red! Red coats, red gloves, red caps. But what did red mean? When both sides were wearing it? Did red mean protest? Did red mean unity? Here is a historian, what can he tell us? Red is the blood of revolutionaries. Which revolution? Which, indeed. Is the sun white against blue - [Deficiency / 贫乏](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/deficiency) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translation of Li Jianchun by Diana Shi and George O'Connell. When I try too hard, I slip into boredom. - [Orphan: The Plural Form](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/orphan-the-plural-form) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 essay by Sun Yung Shin. We grow up hearing ourselves called Orphan. The word conjures, for some, images of dirty... - [Traces from the Ordinary: Lee Si-young](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/traces-from-the-ordinary-lee-si-young) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translator's note, "Traces from the Ordinary: Lee Si-young" by Brother Anthony of Taizé and Yoo Hui-sok. - [Sleeping Outside / 별잠 ](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/sleeping-outside) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation of Lee Si-young's "Sleeping Outside" by Brother Anthony of Taizé and Yoo Hui-sok. - [Once Upon a Time... / 옛날엔](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/once-upon-a-time) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation of Lee Si-young's "Once Upon a Time" by Brother Anthony of Taizé and Yoo Hui-sok. - [Night / 밤](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/night) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation of Lee Si-young's "Night" by Brother Anthony of Taizé and Yoo Hui-sok. - [Looking Good / 보시니 참 좋았다](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/looking-good) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation of Lee Si-young's "Looking Good" by Brother Anthony of Taizé and Yoo Hui-sok. - [Amusing News / 유쾌한 뉴스](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/amusing-news) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation of Lee Si-young's "Amusing News" by Brother Anthony of Taizé and Yoo Hui-sok. - [from Living Life / de Vivir la vida ](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/from-living-life) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 fiction by Sara Sefchovich, translated from the Spanish by Stacy McKenna. A week later, I was still wearing... - [Prophet](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/prophet) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 fiction by Sean Quinn. In the town on the south side of the mountain, a man awoke... - [Caretaking](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/caretaking) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 fiction by Amina Gautier. Winsome gets off the three train at Saratoga and Livonia, already late. - [In the Canyon / 在峡谷里](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/in-the-canyon) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translation from the Chinese of Yi Lu's "In the Canyon" by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. - [Bearer of the uncertain message / Porteur du message incertain ](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/bearer-of-the-uncertain-message) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translation of Dominique Quélen by Barbara Beck. bearer of the uncertain message: it’s paper. - [Soluble Language and the Forward Momentum of Words: Prose Fragments by Dominique Quélen](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/soluble-language-and-the-forward-momentum-of-words-prose-fragments-by-dominique-quelen) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translator's note on Dominique Quélen by Barbara Beck. These poems are part of Quélen’s collection, Comme quoi... - [The Carnival and the Courtroom / 嘉年华与法庭](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/the-carnival-and-the-courtroom) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translation of Li Jianchun by Diana Shi and George O'Connell. The waterbowl level in my hands... - [On the Phone, Mother Urging / 母亲在电话中催促](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/on-the-phone-mother-urging) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translation of Li Jianchun by Diana Shi and George O'Connell. Three days ago, mother phones, saying... - [Two-Part Song for Lent](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/two-part-song-for-lent) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Leslie Adrienne Miller. Perhaps they were never at odds, the beasts / and angels... - [The Uterus of a Gravid Cow, c. 1508](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/the-uterus-of-a-gravid-cow-c-1508) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Sylvia Legris. …una dimostratione… Rehearse the 2- chambered uterus. - [The Lungs and Other Viscera, c.1508](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/the-lungs-and-other-viscera-c-1508) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Sylvia Legris. The botanical cadaver. The bulbous / presciently Baroque liver. - [Another Small Apocalypse](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/another-small-apocalypse) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Richard Jackson. That twenty thousand people in the early 19th century... - [Hafez, Ghazal #3](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/hafez-ghazal-3) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translation of Hafez, Ghazal #3 by Roger Sedarat. For the Shirazi’s mole, I’d offer a / Trade of Samarkand and Bukhara. - [Hafez, Ghazal #1](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/hafez-ghazal-1) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translation of Hafez, Ghazal #1 by Roger Sedarat. Hey wine boy! Keep giving us more to drink. - [It’s Always So /Semper Eadem](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/its-always-so) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translation of Charles Baudelaire by Jan Owen. ‘What causes it,’ you’d ask, ‘your strange grief... - [Bad Luck / Le Guignon](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/bad-luck) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 translation of Charles Baudelaire by Jan Owen. Even if you had the heart / to shoulder such a weight... - [On Climbing Mountains](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/on-climbing-mountains) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Robert Wrigley. Being the only things that have grown harder, / the going up... - [Falling Rock](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/falling-rock) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Sandra Meek. No clean getaway, no body / without mirrors: arms / olive and emerald... - [Small Catastrophes](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/small-catastrophes) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Matthew Gagnon. Rendered untouchable, the moon was once an overlord, an industry / of hide-and-seek. - [An Accidental Principle](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/an-accidental-principle) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Matthew Gagnon. When someone says the present is falling through our fingers... - [Roe, Fallow, and Red Deer](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/roe-fallow-and-red-deer) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Christina Cook. Roe, fallow, and red deer; brown spinnakers... - [Benign](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/benign) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Jennifer Barber. The thought / of more waiting rooms / recedes, along with the need / for bravery. - [Thievery](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/thievery) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Seth Abramson. At first I think / I don’t love my neighbor’s car, he can keep it - [Visitor from Another World — Party in the Blitz: The English Years by Elias Canetti](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/party-in-the-blitz-the-english-years-by-elias-canetti) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 review of Elias Canetti's Party in the Blitz: The English Years by Michael Stein. - [Plot Lines](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/plot-lines) - — beginning on a line by Daniel Simko All winter we have been inventing a plot against the pear tree Conspiring for its fruit we wait out the labor then applaud the pear tree The singing began as a bride about to wed At noon her veil rose over the hill’s face then a voice - [That's What I'm Talking About](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/thats-what-im-talking-about) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Richard Jackson. It appears, finally, that I have a plan that works. It is not just a response... - [Waiting for the Bus to Arrive](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/waiting-for-the-bus-to-arrive) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Richard Jackson. The announcements were everywhere. Something was coming. The newspapers scrambled ... - [Statuette of an Infant with a Phoenician Inscription](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/statuette-of-an-infant-with-a-phoenician-inscription) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Ange Mlinko. Three generations of kings / under the name Baalshillem... - [Amphitheatre at Tarragona](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/amphitheatre-at-tarragona) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Ange Mlinko. One might say there are atmospheric conditions / in the minds of men that reach... - [Colophospermum mopane](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/colophospermum-mopane) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Sandra Meek. Mophane tree, you fascinate / for what feasts / your blown limbs — / crop of caterpillars... - [Quiver Tree (Aloe dichotoma)](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/quiver-tree-aloe-dichotoma) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Sandra Meek. Not the horizon’s rippling, stick-built from wind- / battered grass; not the dark... - [An Elegiac Tone Predominates](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/an-elegiac-tone-predominates) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Sandra Meek. Winter flight / of starlings / / dark curtain let fall / across cirrus winged like the gift... - [The Man from Kinvara](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/the-man-from-kinvara) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Tess Gallagher. At the beheading of the statue the laurel parted from the garter, and what they did... - [Poems from Paintings: A Collaboration](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/poems-from-paintings-a-collaboration) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 essay/art by Tess Gallagher and Josie Gray. In 1994, six years after my husband Raymond Carver’s death... - [Between the Voice and the Feather](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/between-the-voice-and-the-feather) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Tess Gallagher. Her voice-pulse gouges its echo of presence against a dark rim of shore... - [Barrie Cooke Painting](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/barrie-cooke-painting) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Tess Gallagher. I who am usually a verb looking for its subject am his subject. Still, I have no trouble... - [The Operation](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/the-operation) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Melissa Kwasny. Remember that there are guardians reserved only for you: night, mist, the blue sky... - [The Return, or Dreaming Back](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/the-return-or-dreaming-back) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Melissa Kwasny. In the fig or the “hermetically sealed” half oranges the young artist stuffs into a burlap... - [Trouble](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/trouble) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Melissa Kwasny. - [Recuperation](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/recuperation) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Melissa Kwasny. That I am taken back, given back, that is, we are all on loan. Arboreal forest, I reaffirm... - [Orient](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/orient) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Melissa Kwasny. Say you have seen inside your body. Your organs have hit the light of day, a film that... - [On the Superiority of Music to Prayer](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/on-the-superiority-of-music-to-prayer) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Robert Wrigley. At the end of Chinatown, the great Polanski film, Evelyn Mulwray... - [Legend](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/legend) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Robert Wrigley. It is the legend, regarding the hole at the Big Eddy of the Clearwater River to be... - [Roots in the Soil: The Mythology of Poetry and Place ](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/roots-in-the-soil-the-mythology-of-poetry-and-place) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 essay by Christina Cook. I see the sun crown the trees on the far side of the lake each morning. Its light streams sideways... - [Lake Effect](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/lake-effect) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Christina Cook. My sons have seen dragonflies die in the mouths of birds, fish feeding from shells of... - [Gathering Gods](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/gathering-gods) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Christina Cook. The bees gather their gods from fireweed and tufted vetch. The crackled plate of ice in the... - [Long Shots and Closeups](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/long-shots-and-closeups) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 essay by Wendy Barker. Home from a screening of Chicago, I was singing “All that jazz” while measuring rice and slicing radishes, punctuating my breathy notes with occasional attempts at syncopated shimmies... - [In the Hands of a Pro: Mrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy Winn](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/mrs-somebody-somebody-by-tracy-winn) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 review of Tracy Winn's Mrs. Somebody Somebody by A.S. Penne. - [Untitled (Dark breadth of the sea)](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/untitled-dark-breadth-of-the-sea) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Pēters Brūveris, translated by Inara Cedrins. dark breadth of the sea, dunes like creased, crumbling... - [Innate Cussedness of the Part: Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers by Nathaniel Tarn](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/innate-cussedness-of-the-part-ins-and-outs-of-the-forest-rivers-by-nathaniel-tarn) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 review of Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers (Nathaniel Tarn) by Maryanne Hannan. - [Everness: Everything and Nothing by Jorge Luis Borges](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/everything-and-nothing-by-jorge-luis-borges) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 review of Jorge Luis Borges' Everything and Nothing by Stephen Sossaman. - [When It Feels Like a Dream: Two Poems by Denise Levertov](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/when-it-feels-like-a-dream-two-poems-by-denise-levertov) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 essay by Erica Goss on Denise Levertov. I can’t remember my first encounter with poetry, but by the time I was ten... - [Life as Art as Cinepoem: Gao Xingjian's Silhouette/Shadow](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/life-as-art-as-cinepoem-gao-xingjians-silhouette-shadow) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 review of Silhouette/Shadow (Gao Xingjian), by Barbara Yien. - [Haji as Prophet Defends his (T)ruthful (t)one](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/haji-as-prophet-defends-his-truthful-tone) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Roger Sedarat. And the well known reviewer questioned / Haji’s outdated didactic tone, arguing... - [Photographic Seeing — Homage: Remembering Chernobyl by Jim Krantz](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/homage-remembering-chernobyl-by-jim-krantz) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 review of Jim Krantz's Homage: Remembering Chernobyl by James Smart. - [A Four-Dimensional Portrait — The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps by Eric Hazan](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/the-invention-of-paris-a-history-in-footsteps-by-eric-hazan) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 review of Eric Hazan's The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps by Paul Kahn. - [Enigmatic Genius — Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance: Art as Experiment by Herbert Molderings](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/duchamp-and-the-aesthetics-of-chance-art-as-experiment-by-herbert-molderings) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 review of Herbert Molderings' Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance by Merridawn Duckler. - [Colorado Summer, 2010](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/colorado-summer-2010) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 photography by Andrew Zimmerman. In these photographs of Colorado I seek to portray landscape as being perpetually in flux... - [from Resonances](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/from-resonances) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 photography by Steven Benson. “For the past forty years I’ve been making photographs for this body of work I think of as... - [More Ink Landscapes](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/more-ink-landscapes) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 art by Yang Jian. - [Life in India](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/life-in-india) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 photography by Luke Ritta. - [Industrial Romance and New Paintings](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/industrial-romance-and-new-paintings) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 art by Celia Rabinovitch. - [East Meets West](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/east-meets-west) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 art by John Chang. Ideas for my paintings come to me when I dream. When I wake up, I draw my ideas in a sketchbook... - [from Cave Series](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/from-cave-series) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 photography by Jessica Hubbard Marr. - [A Rat's Maze](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/a-rats-maze) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 fiction by Alan Marshfield. “Flicks, movies… fleapits, multiplexes…” This is Dad talking. "You might think there are hundreds... - [Benny Bean and the Magic Nectar / Bab Berci és a csodanektár](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/benny-bean-and-the-magic-nectar) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 fiction by Ervin Lázár, translated by Andrea Németh-Newhauser. Benny Bean kept craning his neck. “Something unusual... - [Palimpsest Palinode: A Pilgrimage of the Aesthetic](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/palimpsest-palinode-a-pilgrimage-of-the-aesthetic) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 essay by Henry W. Leung. I am sixteen and alone and my grandmother is dying, but this cannot be the first line of the poem... - [oysters / austern](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/oysters) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Jan Wagner translated by David Keplinger, Katharina Norden & Jan Wagner. mornings i alone bring general junot... - [elegy for knievel / elegie für knievel](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/elegy-for-knievel) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Jan Wagner translated by David Keplinger, Katharina Norden & Jan Wagner. wherever it saw him, the land began to blur... - [elderflower / holunder](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/elderflower) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Jan Wagner translated by David Keplinger, Katharina Norden & Jan Wagner. why this ink, you ask, in the branches... - [december 1914 / dezember 1914](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/december-1914) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Jan Wagner translated by David Keplinger, Katharina Norden & Jan Wagner. plemplem, we imagined them, of course... - [augustin lópez: the art of topiary](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/augustin-lopez-the-art-of-topiary) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Jan Wagner translated by David Keplinger, Katharina Norden & Jan Wagner. he set out every dawn to do his work... - [Untitled (To see each other...) / 无题](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/untitled-to-see-each-other) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Li Shangyin translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts. To see each other, difficult, to part, also difficult... - [Twisting River / 曲江](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/twisting-river) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Li Shangyin translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts. In the distance where my gaze breaks, the emperor’s emerald... - [Hibiscus, Two Poems / 槿花](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/hibiscus-two-poems) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Li Shangyin translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts. A swallow’s form is damaged by the strength of the wind... - [Not the Actual But the Perceived: Translating the Poetics of Li Shangyin](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/not-the-actual-but-the-perceived-translating-the-poetics-of-li-shangyin) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 translator's note on Li Shangyin by Chloe Garcia Roberts. Li Shangyin (813-859), was a late Tang poet whose works... - [To José Guillermo in Campinas, Brazil / A José Guillermo en Campinas](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/to-jose-guillermo-in-campinas-brazil) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Eduardo Milán translated by John Oliver Simon. Things are fuzzy and the night is dark / (to José Guillermo... - [Marked tendency to hit nothing / Esa tendencia pronunciada a dar en nada](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/marked-tendency-to-hit-nothing) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Eduardo Milán translated by John Oliver Simon. Marked tendency to hit nothing / If you prop it up... - [The leap of the tiger, a metaphor / El salto del tigre, metáfora](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/the-leap-of-the-tiger-a-metaphor) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Eduardo Milán translated by John Oliver Simon. The leap of the tiger, a metaphor / for letting go of prose... - [I can't get myself to agree with myself / No consigo estar de acuerdo conmigo](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/i-cant-get-myself-to-agree-with-myself) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Eduardo Milán translated by John Oliver Simon. I can’t get myself to agree with myself. / I doubt and stammer... - [On the Edges of Mexican Poetry: Eduardo Milán](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/on-the-edges-of-mexican-poetry-eduardo-milan) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 translator's note on Eduardo Milán by John Oliver Simon. That’s as close as I could get to the Spanish pun... - [from Sakra Boccata / de Sakra Boccata](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/sakra-boccata) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by José Antonio Mazzotti translated by Clayton Eshleman. The wind smells of Atlantic foam / Shadow articulates... - [Eros and the Sacred: The Sakra Boccata of José Antonio Mazzotti](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/eros-and-the-sacred-the-sakra-boccata-of-jose-antonio-mazzotti) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 prologue on José Antonio Mazzotti by Raúl Zurita translated by Clayton Eshleman. José Antonio Mazzotti’s Sakra Boccata... - [from The Sorrow of Ghosts / Le mal des fantômes (extraits)](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/from-the-sorrow-of-ghosts) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem Benjamin Fondane translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody. Others before us made the crossing / of this life... - [On The Sorrow of Ghosts by Benjamin Fondane](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/on-the-sorrow-of-ghosts-by-benjamin-fondane) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 translator's note on Benjamin Fondane by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody. Recalling a letter that marked the true beginning... - [A Storm in Devon / Quando profectus fueram](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/a-storm-in-devon) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Aldhelm, translated by Maryann Corbett. I passed through Cornwall, fearfully, / as far as Devon... - [Alcuin: Concerning a Nightingale / De Luscinia](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/alcuin-concerning-a-nightingale) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Alcuin of York, translated by Maryann Corbett. Jealousy, that’s what it was. It was thin-fingered envy that... - [Nature/Nurture: Aldhelm, Alcuin, and the Rediscovery of Latin Measure](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/nature-nurture-alcuin-aldhelm-and-the-rediscovery-of-latin-measure) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 translator's note on Alcuin of York and Aldhelm by Maryann Corbett. These two Latin poems look like the simplest of... - [to a Table à deux](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/to-a-table-a-deux) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Doog T. Wood. at the end of the sixth or seventh day, most / were back where they started, broken... - [Mehara](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/mehara) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Doog T. Wood. well-over forty, saidi, yet not broken / and bought in the fourth year, when... - [Thoreau Journal](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/thoreau-journal) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Cole Swensen. Thoreau’s famous lecture on walking started out as part of / another lecture titled “The Wild,"... - [Nightingale](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/nightingale) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Roger Sedarat. They took her flapping and screaming, / the white masked scientists, / pinning each wing... - [According to Sand](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/according-to-sand) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Thorpe Moeckel. I’m staring down the ghost crab’s periscope. / The day is much stemmed, the day’s a shadow... - [Dream Sequence for the Century, with Sonata](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/dream-sequence-for-the-century-with-sonata) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Éireann Lorsung. The river. Distance to the river. / The fog between the river and here occupying... - [Traces of the imperfectly erased](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/traces-of-the-imperfectly-erased) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Keetje Kuipers. I wished you dead / which, at the time, seemed a clever way / of outsmarting the heart’s... - [from Bizarre [and Ezekiel … kept sensing the fire]](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/from-bizarre) - and Ezekiel.... ...kept sensing the fire. God would not stop talking to him. The voice of God becomes the body of his book, becomes the plot and the setting, the mood and the moment. The mystery of prophecy brought down to the daily slog of warnings against harlotry and bad allegiances, and just how smoke-spitting - [Aphorisms](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/aphorisms) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Tobias Grüterich, translated by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright. - [True Love](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/true-love) - “No remembering, no forgetting: The secret of true love.” — Zen saying As if you were to fill a shapeless bowl with stars and wash clouds in it until your sorrow begins to drift away from this world of remembering, and the forgetting. As if you were to hear the teardrops of the smallest insects - [Les Mères (extraits) / from Mothers](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/from-mothers) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation of Jacques Dupin's Les Mères (extraits) / from Mothers by John Taylor. - [Tynescapes](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/tynescapes) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 photography by Tina Carr and Annemarie Schöne. At first sight this is a series of strikingly beautiful landscapes... - [I am Not a Voyeur: Michael Katakis and His Photographic Approach](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/i-am-not-a-voyeur-michael-katakis-and-his-photographic-approach) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 interview with photographer Michael Katakis by Greta Aart. - [Held Back](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/held-back) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 fiction by Jim Daniels. Somebody dies at the end. Somebody always dies at the end.... - [Our Mothers Left Us](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/our-mothers-left-us) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 fiction by David Harris Ebenbach. They left all at once. There was no warning, or none that we could read... - [Spirited Away / 神かくし](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/spirited-away) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 essay by Mutsuo Takahashi, translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. "There’s a crazy lady at the Tejima..." - [The Wanderings of Freedom: Poems by Luljeta Lleshanaku](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/the-wanderings-of-freedom-poems-by-luljeta-lleshanaku) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 translator's note on Luljeta Lleshanaku, translated by Henry Israeli and Shpresa Qatipi. - [Three New Translations: La Blanche Neige, Rosemonde, Salomé](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/three-new-translations-la-blanche-neige-rosemonde-salome) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 translator's note on Guillaume Apollinaire by Greta Aart. - [Shi Ke & Yan Jun: Innovative Poets from China](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/shi-ke-and-yan-jun-innovative-poets-from-china) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 translator's note on Shi Ke and Yan Jun, translated by Eleanor Goodman and Ao Wang. - [Tomaž Šalamun: Four New Poems](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/tomaz-salamun-four-new-poems) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 translator's note on Tomaž Šalamun, translated by Thomas Kane and Sonja Kravanja. - [Senadin Musabegović: The Maturing of Homeland](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/senadin-musabegovic-the-maturing-of-homeland) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 translator's note on Senadin Musabegović, translated by Ulvija Tanović. - [Pierre-Albert Jourdan: Les Sandales de paille / The Straw Sandals](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/translators-note-les-sandales-de-paille-the-straw-sandals) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 translator's note on Pierre-Albert Jourdan, translated by John Taylor. - [Poetry of a Constant Traveler: Blaise Cendrars](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/poetry-of-a-constant-traveler-blaise-cendrars) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 translator's note on Blaise Cendrars, translated by Z. Cody Lee. - [On Translating Habib Tengour](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/on-translating-habib-tengour) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 translator's note on Habib Tengour, by Pierre Joris. - [Disruption and Continuity: The Poetry of Krzysztof Piechowicz and Tadeusz Dziewanowski](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/disruption-and-continuity-the-poetry-of-krzysztof-piechowicz-and-tadeusz-dziewanowski) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 translator's note on Krzysztof Piechowicz and Tadeusz Dziewanowski, translated by Daniel Bourne. - [Ervin Lázár: The Adventures of Benny Bean](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/ervin-lazar-the-adventures-of-benny-bean) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 translator's note on Ervin Lázár by Andrea Németh-Newhauser. - [Selections from Flashes (After Reverdy): Carlota Caulfield](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/selections-from-flashes-after-reverdy-carlota-caulfield) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translator's note on Carlota Caulfield by Mary G. Berg. - [Creating a New Version of Dante's Inferno](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/creating-a-new-version-of-dantes-inferno) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translator's note on Dante Alighieri by Mary Jo Bang. - [The Grace of Words: Deep in Lan Lan's Lyricism](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/the-grace-of-words-deep-in-lan-lans-lyricism) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 translator's note on Lan Lan by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. - [On Michaux's "Movements"](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/on-michauxs-movements) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 translator's note by Clayton Eshleman on Henri Michaux's "Movements." - [Affections and Disaffections — Beyond the Lyric: Poems by Bai Hua](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/affections-and-disaffections-beyond-the-lyric-poems-by-bai-hua) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 translator's note on Bai Hua by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. - [Jacques Dupin's Poetic Language: A Process of Becoming, of Blossoming](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/jacques-dupins-poetic-language-a-process-of-becoming-of-blossoming) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translator's note, "Jacques Dupin's Poetic Language: A Process of Becoming, of Blossoming" by John Taylor. - [Time, Hope, Illusions, Peace: Korean Poet Ko Un](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/time-hope-illusions-peace-korean-poet-ko-un) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 translator's note on Ko Un, by Brother Anthony of Taizé and Lee Sang-Wha. - [Xi Chuan: Poetry of the Anti-lyric](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/xi-chuan-poetry-of-the-anti-lyric) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translator's note on Xi Chuan by Lucas Klein. - [Aphorisms by Tobias Grüterich: Wise and Off the Cuff](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/aphorisms-by-tobias-gruterich-wise-and-off-the-cuff) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 translator's note on Tobias Grüterich by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright. - [Travels to Tartarus: Tourist in Hell by Eleanor Wilner](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/tourist-in-hell-by-eleanor-wilner) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 review by Christina Cook: "Travels to Tartarus: Tourist in Hell by Eleanor Wilner." - [Drunk on the New Honey and the Honey](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/drunk-on-the-new-honey-and-the-honey) - What was the name you gave the mouse we found in the field? Was it Tiny, or Graybeard or something more mundane? And by mundane I mean, of course, of earth, of ground, of something tied and tethered here like you, like me. And what was the sound that rose in your throat as he - [The Indian in the Kitchen](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/the-indian-in-the-kitchen) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Naomi Shihab Nye. Her face is Central America — from the edges, oceans stretch out. Quietly, quietly, the years have left her, traveling by ship... - [Letter to a Gifted Student](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/letter-to-a-gifted-student) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Betty Adcock. Know this first: the gift is worthless you’ve been unwrapping all these years... - [A Day in Lavender](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/a-day-in-lavender) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Jeanne Marie Beaumont. At the circus there was never enough lavender. Later, at the gallery... - [Heart](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/heart) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Angie Estes. Ox heart has an honest beefy quality, lamb's heart rubs up against you, said the chef... - [Loyalty / 忠诚](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/loyalty) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Bei Dao, trans. by Clayton Eshleman and Lucas Klein. Don’t turn on the light / the door of darkness is drawing in a saint... - [How Zen Ruins Poets](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/how-zen-ruins-poets) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Chase Twichell. Before I knew that mind / could never marry the words / it loved, in which it lost itself... - [Now that less seems pleasing](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/now-that-less-seems-pleasing) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Tony Brinkley. Yesterday, selecting — one / would go this once — my mother / came to offer me her emptiness — - [from Pencils' Soup and Zulka](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/from-pencils-soup-and-zulka) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 art by Lucy Elkvity, text by Orly Melamed. from Pencils' Soup and Zulka - [Slowdown](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/slowdown) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Seth Abramson. What you cannot face / you face — that’s your direction. - [Finding the Line](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/finding-the-line) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 art by Diane Schofield. “Drawing and observation are at the centre of all my work; I carry a sketchbook at... - [Beyond Vision](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/beyond-vision) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 paintings by Yi Lu. - [Third Eye](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/third-eye) - I say part of the eye has seen loss part waits for it — yet two horses mild as mild dogs came into the house — You say we could agree to love them while you read a book of accidental humor in an etching, cylindrical engines blow the man overboard back onto the ship - [Bathing at the Museum](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/11/bathing-at-the-museum) - Casablanca lilies, sandbag mammaries — what have you to do with me? Angels announce among flowers, the monk’s miniature carnations exquisitely foregrounded. There is no red but the red of the deep of the body. Penitence is an unlikely fate yet churches everywhere: incomprehensible but for the rationality of tithes. Like Bonnard’s wife incessantly I - [Sorrow / 悲 伤](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/sorrow) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Yang Jian. No masterpiece can transform me into the Ganges, / nor pacify this decrepit death... - [Here / 这里](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/here) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Yang Jian. Here is the outskirt, / the only integrality of broken mountains and rivers. - [Cobblestone Path to the Mountain / 通向山上的石子路](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/cobblestone-path-to-the-mountain) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Yang Jian. How many times have I walked this cobblestone path up the mountain, / laned by green vegetables and high spruces. - [Poem of a Dead Tree / 枯树赋](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/poem-of-a-dead-tree) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Yang Jian. I no longer have any leaves, / only thorns remain. / These thorns are not me. / You can no longer see / who I am. - [Night Deep / 夜深沉](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/night-deep) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Yang Jian. Birds / flutter and shriek above the field. // A pig-herder / looking at the miraculous sunset / cannot stop crying. - [1967 / 1967年](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/1967) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Yang Jian. They say: / “Snap the cords of the erhu, / smash its body.” / We no longer have melody. - [Ink Landscapes](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/ink-landscapes) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 ink landscapes by Chinese artist and poet Yang Jian. - [Ink and Brush Paintings](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/ink-and-brush-paintings) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 watercolors by Yang Jian. - [Colorado Winter, 2008-10](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/colorado-winter) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 photography by Andrew Zimmerman. - [Libres, 2008-2009](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/libres-2008-2009) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 photography by Jessica Hubbard Marr. Libres, 2008-2009 - [Benny Bean and the Fairitch (or Whatever) / Bab Berci és a tünkány vagy kicsoda](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/benny-bean-and-the-fairitch-or-whatever) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 fiction by Ervin Lázár, translated by Andrea Németh-Newhauser. Benny Bean was walking down the forest trail... - [Various Kinds of Fire](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/various-kinds-of-fire) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Nate Pritts. Two times the shattering racket of the phone ringing & each time my fish are startled... - [New Feeling for the Morning](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/new-feeling-for-the-morning) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Nate Pritts. There was this war going on inside my body / & it’s exactly what you wanted... - [Glorious Business](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/glorious-business) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Nate Pritts. A new tomorrow to put a dance in my step, / please, unwind the anxiousness building... - [Fragment: 2/](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/fragment-2) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Éireann Lorsung. Her heart was made out of wild horses. No one could control the herd that ranged... - [First Principles](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/first-principles) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Éireann Lorsung. In the beginning was the labyrinth. It was the size of a continent, the inside of a jar... - [The Last Time My Head](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/the-last-time-my-head) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Matt Hart. The last time my head was full of hands, I laughed all the way to the cloudbank... - [Invisible Mentor](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/invisible-mentor) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Matt Hart. Without even a whisper, you unmade the valley’s void, leaving a fullness of greenery... - [2/14/09](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/2-14-09) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Matt Hart. When I wander the lining of your stomach with longing, there’s a phone ringing weirdly... - [Gomorrah](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/gomorrah) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Tony Brinkley. Balancing the wind gusts — the gold pointless, ground to powder — Here in heaven... - [If I Had an Eye Patch, I'd Give You My Eye — [1]](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/if-i-had-an-eye-patch-id-give-you-my-eye) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Arlene Ang. Breath pushed against the porthole, they sought to give a geographical location for desire... - [Orphanage](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/orphanage) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Arlene Ang. On the eleventh day, captivity begins to work into the breathing... - [from approximative translations](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/from-approximative-translations) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Arlene Ang. skin not with-standing : kewpie doll serialized on kelp : how hunger shapes itself... - [Helping Others See: The Work of Photographer Larry Louie](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/helping-others-see-the-work-of-photographer-larry-louie) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 interview with photographer Larry Louie by James Smart and Sally Molini. - [Canto XVII](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/canto-xvii) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation of Dante Alighieri's Canto XVII by Mary Jo Bang. - [excerpts from The Saturation Project](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/excerpts-from-the-saturation-project) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 essay by Christine Hume. nstead, I grow quiet trying to hear your voice. Simmering on my eardrum. It is a radio voice... - [Seventies](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/seventies) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Sean Singer. Corduroy collar, embroidered after-effects of olive teal. Dawn of the decade: seventies — - [For a Depressed Woman](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/for-a-depressed-woman) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Sean Singer. What happened to the darkness of the grape of the harness? What happened to break... - [On Not Smiling](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/on-not-smiling) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by John Minczeski. It is not that their teeth have gone bad, or they hold down two jobs that makes their gaze... - [Backyard Dialogue](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/backyard-dialogue) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by John Minczeski. After putting out all summer, daisies expiring blooms brown as the smell of steel ... - [Auto Dialogue](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/auto-dialogue) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by John Minczeski. The traffic controller in me signals other cars on the freeway... - [The Victims of the Thirty](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/the-victims-of-the-thirty) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Andrew Kozma. Open my mouth and pick my testimony out. / From between my shattered teeth, a dead tongue. - [Tangle of Yellow Flowers / Enchevêtrement de fleurs jaunes](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/tangle-of-yellow-flowers) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Auxeméry, translated by Nathaniel Tarn. Rainy season! Rainy season! - [Forms and Deformations of the Visible / Formes et déformations du visible](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/forms-and-deformations-of-the-visible) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Auxeméry, translated by Nathaniel Tarn. long after, when the very idea of disaster will be reduced... - [Naiad Math](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/naiad-math) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Ange Mlinko. You should see us try to fix numbers on our slates. / Not the cuneiform weapons... - [Paideia](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/paideia) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Ange Mlinko. Listen — tentative strikes on a snare drum. / (It's the time of day for thunderstorms.) - [The Oath / Zakletva](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/the-oath) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Senadin Musabegović, translated by Ulvija Tanovic. On my ninth birthday, in 1979, after my birthday party... - [Circumscribing Here: The Ginkgo Light by Arthur Sze](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/circumscribing-here-the-ginkgo-light-by-arthur-sze) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 review of The Ginko Light (Arthur Sze) by Maryanne Hannan. - [The Deceptive Pleasures of Chess](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/the-deceptive-pleasures-of-chess) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 essay by Josip Novakovich. In my hometown of Daruvar, Croatia, in the late sixties, a friend invited me to the chess... - [Poetry is a Way of Seeing: A Conversation with Betty Adcock](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/poetry-is-a-way-of-seeing-a-conversation-with-betty-adcock) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 interview with poet Betty Adcock by Sally Molini. - [Between Waking and Dreaming: Shot by Christine Hume](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/shot-by-christine-hume) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 review of Christine Hume's Shot by Kristina Marie Darling. - [The Taste of Mangoes](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/the-taste-of-mangoes) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 essay by Jie Li. In August 1968, a visiting minister from Pakistan gave Chairman Mao a basket of mangoes as a token... - [One Little Christmas Tree](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/one-little-christmas-tree) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 fiction by Russell Bittner. Trees don’t talk. You know that. I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know... - [From War to War / De guerre en guerre](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/de-guerre-en-guerre-from-war-to-war) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Tahar Bekri, translated by Marilyn Hacker. The sea doesn’t know where all this water comes from Off desert shores thirsting for so many rivers... - [March / 三月](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/march-bai-hua) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Bai Hua, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. speechless moon / a speechless badge... - [Love Campaign / 爱的运动](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/love-campaign) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Bai Hua, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Cars speed by / That is love campaign... - [On the Wilder Side of Venice](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/on-the-wilder-side-of-venice) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 essay by Stephanie Sears. "Ah, Venice!" exclaims the first time visitor... - [Lost Divers](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/lost-divers) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 art by Josh Dorman. - [Sustenance](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/sustenance) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Joseph Hutchison. The mound of lentils, freshly washed, dripped in a gray aluminum colander... - [Choice / 选择](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/choice) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Bai Hua, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. He wants to go to Kenya, he wants to go to Mexico... - [Attic](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/attic) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Leslie Adrienne Miller. The eaves are ears that funnel blast and squeal / from the road below... - [Reason in Everything / 一切的理由](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/reason-in-everything) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Lan Lan, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Somehow my lips must feed on a honey drop from the depth... - [The TV is On the TV is On the TV is On the TV](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/the-tv-is-on) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Matt Hart. The TV is On the TV is On the TV is On the TV / is always on... - [White Butterfly / 흰 나비 ](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/white-butterfly) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Ko Un, translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé and Lee Sang-Wha. Behold. / One white butterfly... - [The Rest of My Life / 여생](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/the-rest-of-my-life) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Ko Un, translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé and Lee Sang-Wha. I resolutely confess... - [My Will / 나의 유언](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/my-will) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Ko Un, translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé and Lee Sang-Wha. How the river’s sorrow flows... - [Hawthorn Tree / 山楂树](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/hawthorn-tree) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Lan Lan, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Loveliest is the flower. Pink. - [In Maestro's Living Room / 在大师的客厅里](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/in-maestros-living-room) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Lan Lan, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. No ghastly debt in academics. Nor / in silence... - [Ancient Tune of Guangling / 广陵散](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/ancient-tune-of-guangling) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Bai Hua, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. A youth slides off towards the abyss / followed by another - [Birds of Rome](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/birds-of-rome) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Judith Vollmer. That crow guaranteed my entrance to the cult of grappa at the bar in Monteverde... - [from The Black Regiment / Un extrait de Le Régiment noir](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/un-extrait-de-le-regiment-noir-from-the-black-regiment) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 fiction by Henry Bachau, translated from the French by Godelieve Uyttenhove. - [A Working Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/a-working-day-in-dhaka-bangladesh) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 photography by Larry Louie. Bangladesh is one of the poorest nations in the world... - [In the Seminar, Trying to Launch Passage to India](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/in-the-seminar-trying-to-launch-passage-to-india) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Wendy Barker. I’ve got to lecture on Forster and the Raj, the partition of Bengal, / but I can't focus... - [Waking Over Call it Sleep](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/waking-over-call-it-sleep) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Wendy Barker. I’m the closest thing to Jewish in the class even though / at best I’m only one-eighth... - [M. Claude](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/m-claude) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 fiction by Adam T. Johnson. Good evening. You should read this in the evening. I’m Marcel Claude. - [Dusk](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/dusk) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Maxine Scates. A figure lifting flattened cardboard boxes / out of her car across from the post office... - [Denial Machine](https://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/denial-machine) - Cerise Press, Summer 2012, Vol. 4 Issue 10 poem by Sandra Meek. Out my rented window, traffic worries / its one black stitch; a train hums... - [Mask](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/mask) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Maxine Scates. You’re waiting for a boat to appear, during / the day a gray silhouette, at night a searchlight - [Or Two Cans Tied Together with String](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/or-two-cans-tied-together-with-string) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by James Harms. My wife sings like laughing water in a pot, peels onions for a stew that will by evening's end... - [Roadside Grave: February](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/roadside-grave-february) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Franz Wright. In the white is a name. / In the three worlds / it stands. Wind / sounds, a world of one / color. - [Rain in Waltham](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/rain-in-waltham) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Franz Wright. Rain in Waltham, same rain as anywhere. / Water drops mixed with dust, risen / from bodies... - [Fayetteville](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/fayetteville) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Franz Wright. So this is the other, invisible world now / to you. / Early leaves blowing spreading green... - [Kore](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/kore) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Franz Wright. How much you have longed for / these paths, crooked, overgrown / and overlooking... - [Headlong for that Fair Target](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/headlong-for-that-fair-target) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Eleanor Wilner. You might have said our aim was bad, or we had spent years chasing it — that sweetness near... - [Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/colony-collapse-disorder-ccd) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Eleanor Wilner. Nothing more definite than that we awoke the next morning... - [The Same Window](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/the-same-window) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Ray Gonzalez. What should I say? That Nostradamus uttered in a strange tongue only known to him... - [Six Rising Prose Poems](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/six-rising-prose-poems) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Ray Gonzalez. The beginning of the alphabet says we are supposed to stay hungry and not say a word... - [Retrieval](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/retrieval) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Ray Gonzalez. An Apache chief stares into the camera three days before he is killed. Your empty palm... - [James Wright Returns to Minneapolis](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/james-wright-returns-to-minneapolis) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Ray Gonzalez. I spotted him on the corner of Lake and Cedar, the cemetery across the road streaked... - [Erase the Seventh Moon](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/erase-the-seventh-moon) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Ray Gonzalez. Erase the seventh moon and you will be rewarded with the madness of an open mouth... - [Listening](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/listening) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Andrew Kozma. Fissioned elements like broken families, or the new / world of return... - [Evolution](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/evolution-2) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Lia Purpura. A leafy branch landed a bird. / Took it right out of flight. - [Forms, Late Fall](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/forms-late-fall) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Lia Purpura. Those just in, the cut-back, the cut-down. / The jacknifed cornstalks. - [Greens](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/greens) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Lia Purpura. Greens compete. Sometimes achieve / a standing in browns, those snarled, long-gones. - [Drops of Change](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/drops-of-change) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 essay by Toccoa Switzer. Mud splatters my white socks as my shoes land in a puddle. It’s rainy season... - [Everyone Around Me](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/everyone-around-me) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 fiction by David Harris Ebenbach. Basically I wanted everyone around me to fail. I wanted them to step up... - [Nietzsche's Mirror](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/nietzsches-mirror) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Franz Wright. The final breakdown coincides, it’s said, with his botched intervention... - [Consumer](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/consumer) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright. In the pet store there is no one at the register. - [Florida](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/florida) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Sean Singer. Air thick with drooping ostrich feathers, / Green javelins and the hibiscus hands’... - [Bee-Face](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/bee-face) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Larissa Szporluk. I grew as small as I could / to descend into you. // Now that I’m down... - [Stormont](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/stormont) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Ed Skoog. The hospital where my father is born / sends shadow down Greenwood Avenue... - [January](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/january) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by John Minczeski. The wind my alarm clock. / The wind staking a claim / In the backyard today.... - [Penultimatum](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/penultimatum) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Thomas Lux. I put forth, in this document, only two demands / which are almost ultimatums. - [Handel](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/handel) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Franz Wright. People said he was overly fond of the good life and ate like a pig... - [Ghost Towns](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/ghost-towns) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 photography by Lynn Radeka. A series of Ghost Town images in the United States. - [Monastery Nights](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/monastery-nights) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Chase Twichell. I like to think about the monastery / as I’m falling asleep, so that it comes / and goes... - [Rue de la Messine 10](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/rue-de-la-messine-10) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Carlota Caulfield. A 14th century French miniature / represents the spirit or angel of Youth... - [Of Aerodynamic Shapes and Navigators' Mirrors / De formas aerodinámicas y espejos de navegantes](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/of-aerodynamic-shapes-and-navigators-mirrors) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Carlota Caulfield. A good traveler / has neither precise plans / nor any fixed destination... - [Four Chinese Stories / Cuatro cuentos chinos](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/four-chinese-stories) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Carlota Caulfield. An ancient Chinese story / tells of a certain emperor, Ts’in Shi ... - [The Silent and the Playful](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/the-silent-and-the-playful) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 photography by Aras Karimi. I look at photography as a relationship between light and film... - [In Solving for X](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/in-solving-for-x) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 fiction by James Reed. No one wants to hear bad news. That’s axiomatic, but the real truth is that no one wants... - [De-ceasing](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/de-ceasing) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 fiction by Richard Penna. Some things start sadly and end quite happily; this is one of those things... - [Signing On with The Daily Sun](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/signing-on-with-the-daily-sun) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Nance Van Winckel. Nearing a thousand words a minute, I can type / to your health... - [Canals](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/canals) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Nance Van Winckel. We come awake as the river mouth puckers / and spits us toward the harbor... - [Cicadas, Monticello](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/cicadas-monticello) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Leon Weinmann. Numberless, in cradled isolation, / they nurse their common fate... - [Broken Ground](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/broken-ground) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Leon Weinmann. All day, nothing // but frost, your spade, your hands, / the smell of raw clay bleeding... - [Soul Cake](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/soul-cake) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Lisa Russ Spaar. Wind monath, blod monath, / & enough melancholy for a soft dough, // brace of ice-spill... - [Bop with a Refrain from a Line by Jonathan Safran Foer](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/bop-with-a-refrain-from-a-line-by-jonathan-safran-foer) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Ravi Shankar. Half-past on the 9:07 local to New Haven, the Bronx / tenements pent in vaguely... - [T Begins Her Biographet](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/t-begins-her-biographet) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Molly Peacock. T was a shambles. / she had a bole for a belly, boles for breasts... - [E & His Little Mouse](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/e-and-his-little-mouse) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Molly Peacock. E loved life underground and owned his mines... - [One Evening, Years Later](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/one-evening-years-later) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Judy Katz. I see the body of my mother over the horizon / expansive finally... - [Coffee](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/coffee) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Nikki Giovanni. Vitamin C prevents Colds / A and D do sunshine / Things / We need Calcium... - [Cult of Don Quixote](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/cult-of-don-quixote) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Abayomi Animashaun. Here, we paint our lips blue. Our faces yellow. Wear silence as garment. - [Flashes (After Reverdy) / Flashes (Après Reverdy)](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/flashes-after-reverdy) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation of Carlota Caulfield's Flashes (After Reverdy) by Mary G. Berg with the author. - [bargaining mummified buffalo](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/bargaining-mummified-buffalo) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Doog T. Wood. at first, the owner wanted to sell camel-knees / painted refrigerator panels, a white-cock... - [Weary Was Not the Word for That Place](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/weary-was-not-the-word-for-that-place) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Thorpe Moeckel. You found a land where names for things / had been erased. - [Figure Drawn on the Ground as the Bull Moose Urinates Upon Waking](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/figure-drawn-on-the-ground-as-the-bull-moose-urinates-upon-waking) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Thorpe Moeckel. One must not overlook the trace marks, strayest, / or the leach tree in full radar. - [Island Century](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/island-century) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Éireann Lorsung. Circumnavigate the island with its complex relation to continents. / Its history of wanting to hold. - [Poem](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/poem-by-matt-hart) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Matt Hart. Thank you for the skull-shaped balloon, / which reminds me of the sky at night when it’s drowsy... - [Subtraction](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/subtraction) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Arlene Ang. That is, A and B share a bed for thirty-six years. The perception A - B corresponds to that broken mirror... - [Skin](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/skin) - Cerise Press, Spring 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 9 poem by Arlene Ang. Under a red umbrella, / the body sloughs off its towel... - [Three Chapters on Dusk / 黄昏三章](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/three-chapters-on-dusk) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation from the Chinese of Xi Chuan's "Three Chapters on Dusk" by Lucas Klein. - [Power Outage / 停 电](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/power-outage) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation from the Chinese of Xi Chuan's "Power Outage" by Lucas Klein. - [Re-reading Borges' Poetry / 重读博尔赫斯诗歌](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/re-reading-borges-poetry) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation from the Chinese of Xi Chuan's "Re-reading Borges' Poetry" by Lucas Klein. - [Ruins and Other Images](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/ruins-and-other-images) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 photography by Harry Wilson. - [Wintersleep](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/wintersleep) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Franz Wright. I was having trouble sleeping. I don’t know how long I’d been lying there... - [Witch-Catalogue](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/witch-catalogue) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Larissa Szporluk. To draw down the moon / when the moon wants down — / whose boast’s that? - [Lost in the Memory Palace](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/lost-in-the-memory-palace) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Floyd Skloot. I found my brother in the attic / of the memory palace / hunched over our old Silvertone... - [Men of Aran: A Sentence](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/men-of-aran-a-sentence) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by James Harms. Dressed in seaweed / and mist, cankers / of barnacles and / broken buoy bells... - [The Botanists](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/08/the-botanists) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8 poem by Kelli Russell Agodon. What you don’t see / is the garden outside the window — - [More Architectural Paintings](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/more-architectural-paintings) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 art by David Daniels. Each painting in this series explores complimentary color... - [Iconic](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/iconic) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 fiction by Brendan Moore. Often I see the portrait in people’s houses or offices, or sometimes in magazines or books... - [Skies of Blood / 血の空](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/skies-of-blood) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 essay by Mutsuo Takahashi, translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. The colors of the sunset — how can I describe them? - [Le Cimetière marin ](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/le-cimetiere-marin) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation of Paul Valéry's "Le Cimetière marin" by Tony Brinkley. - [from Nights / Nuits (extraits)](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/from-nights) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation of Lorand Gaspar's from Nights by Daniela Hurezanu and Stephen Kessler. - [De singes et de mouches (extraits) / from Of Flies and Monkeys](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/from-of-flies-and-monkeys) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 translation of Jacques Dupin's from Of Flies and Monkeys by John Taylor. - [Ultramarine](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/ultramarine) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Leon Weinmann. A hymn, an answer to, / such swelling: ringing back / at the broad-axe, oak... - [St Saint](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/st-saint) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Lisa Russ Spaar. Even my dreams won’t reveal you, / though the hand wants its scepter. - [R & Her Egret](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/r-and-her-egret) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Molly Peacock. Never apologize, EVER! / R grew up straight in this resolve, / unlike her curly, lower-case mother... - [Exercise](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/exercise) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Nikki Giovanni. I want to ride / on a train // I sometimes fly / In a jet plane... - [A Treatise on Wolves / traité des loups](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/traite-des-loups-a-treatise-on-wolves) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Pierre Peuchmaurd, translated by E.C. Belli. At night the wolves are blue, a little phosphorescent... - [At the Tavern of Abû-Nuwâs / À la taverne d’Abû-Nuwâs](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/a-la-taverne-d-abu-nuwas) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Auxeméry, translated by Nathaniel Tarn. Here then is the poem of one already dead, written... - [The Shape of the Bell](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/the-shape-of-the-bell) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Ellen McGrath Smith. The shape of the bell of sincerity is... - [excerpts from A Pictorial History of Wilderness](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/excerpts-from-a-pictorial-history-of-wilderness) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Laressa Dickey. A voice lifts the music, a whisper shaped like a person in this / room and he’s talking to me - [Love and Decay](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/love-and-decay) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Harriet Levin and Ravi Shankar. Graze on the face like a fly on honeydew, / bend over toward someone so that your entire body alights - [Tales of Perplexity / Memoir of a Rebellious Light ](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/tales-of-perplexity-memoir-of-a-rebellious-light) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 photography by Aras Karimi. - [Bride Space](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/bride-space) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Laura Mullen. Hollow and larger than life-size, the BS invites entrance (“he entered her”) though of course... - [Day Three,](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/day-three) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Judy Katz. Day three, / and the coral peony / on the kitchen counter / has opened into / another life — - [Words, I guess, one after another until there are no more](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/words-i-guess-one-after-another-until-there-are-no-more) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Bob Hicok. There's a story I've come to believe is mine. / A man places his coat on a train, carefully... - [What is a Sentence?](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/what-is-a-sentence) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Ray Gonzalez. It is the asking without favor or direction intended... - [Everyone is Reading Franz Kafka](https://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/everyone-is-reading-franz-kafka) - Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7 poem by Ray Gonzalez. Everyone is reading Franz Kafka these days but they don’t know why. - [Architectural Paintings](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/architectural-paintings) - [Communities Outside the World / 世の外(ほか)の群れ](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/communities-outside-the-world) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 essay by Mutsuo Takahashi, translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. - [On Mother's Back / 母の背中](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/on-mothers-back) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 essay by Mutsuo Takahashi, translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. In every sense, Uncle Ken’ichi seemed to have been born... - [My Father's Hands and American Indian](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/my-fathers-hands-and-american-indian) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 essay by Janko Deur. The best, worst and biggest thing about my father were his strong hands. - [The Shut Rose](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/the-shut-rose) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Eva Hooker. Then the knockings the lights in houses the barn doors // I cannot spell / I cannot run / My heart murmurs - [Swept: An Expatriate in Egypt](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/swept-an-expatriate-in-egypt) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 essay by Amanda Fields. The bus idles near an open segment in the bridge railing. Boys squat on the bridge, scooping up the dusty kernels... - [from America Poem](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/from-america-poem) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Margo Berdeshevsky. This middle. This vast. This trim of the last / first snow in ditches. This hard-lined / space for fattened sows and lone-tribed - [To That Which I Follow](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/to-that-which-i-follow) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Chris Forhan. Where would you lead me now, blind ghost? / We have slipped past the guardhouse into the river. - [Signs](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/signs) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Chris Forhan. Spin like this, the pinwheel, aflame in air, / whistled to me. This way to the water... - [Haiti Adrift / Hàïti a la dérive](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/haiti-adrift) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by René Depestre. This is my country decked in prongs and spikes / barbed-wired from top to bottom, a world black... - [The Rope / La Corde](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/the-rope) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by René Depestre. In Paris that year, I slept / in a large dormitory with only one bed: / it was a rope extended... - [fin-de-siècle Plastique ](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/fin-de-siecle-plastique) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 photography by Philip Arnold. - [Max Ernst During the Rain](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/max-ernst-during-the-rain) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Clayton Eshleman. Good morning, Max, are you still on the lookout for what has never been? - [Movements / Mouvements](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/movements) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Henri Michaux, translated by Bernard Bador and Clayton Eshleman. - [Hmmm](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/hmmm) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Clayton Eshleman. There is a hmmm, a hum, an incipient hymn, a / song in food, a hallelujah hint, even before... - [Poison / 毒药](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/poison) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Bei Dao, trans. by Clayton Eshleman and Lucas Klein. Tobacco bates breath//the exile’s window is aligned... - [The Silence](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/the-silence) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Keith Flynn. Off the blue marble come mosaics of radio waves, / in hopes of communication... - [Deer Carillon](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/deer-carillon) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by G.C. Waldrep. as genus: prototype: / a more durable commodity: - [The Library in the Garden](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/the-library-in-the-garden) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by G.C. Waldrep. A preoccupation with wounds: the simple machine the blood makes. So classical. - [Hymn to St. Teilo](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/hymn-to-st-teilo) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by G.C. Waldrep. Hymn to St. Teilo. - [The Man Who Listens / איש הקשב](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/the-man-who-listens) - Hebrew English Translation On the white couch we smoked grass in the dark. Slowly I started to speak. You need to learn, she said, to become a man who listens. And I saw him there in the shadows in the corner by the stereo wearing a reed skirt and peering like a bushman from the - [Lives of the Obscure](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/lives-of-the-obscure) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Maura Stanton. 1919. Then nothing for twenty years / Until her first profession of religious vows... - [Mystery and Mischief in Poetry: Canadian Writer Susan Musgrave](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/mystery-and-mischief-in-poetry-canadian-writer-susan-musgrave) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 interview with Canadian writer Susan Musgrave, by Greta Aart. - [Untitled / Sans titre](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/sans-titre-untitled) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 art by Bernard Bador. - [Acquainted with the Night](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/acquainted-with-the-night) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 photography by Lynn Saville, "Acquainted with the Night." - [Understanding the Sky](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/understanding-the-sky) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Susan Musgrave. The ravens arrived before daybreak, / awakening me. I moved from my moonlit / bed... - [Sunny April Fool's Day Hoax / Poisson d’un premier avril ensoleillé](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/sunny-april-fools-day-hoax) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by René Depestre. Place a pair of red fish / in my bowl of anguish... - [Caribbean Mother / Mère caraïbe](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/caribbean-mother) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by René Depestre. From the very beginning / the sea puts you in cosmic harmony / with all beings, all places... - [from "América" / de "América"](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/from-america) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 excerpt from a poem by Rocío Cerón, translated by Jen Hofer. - [Gao Xingjian’s Latest Ink Drawings at Galerie Claude Bernard in Paris, France](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/gao-xingjians-latest-ink-drawings-at-galerie-claude-bernard-in-paris-france) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 art review of Gao Xingjian’s ink drawings at Galerie Claude Bernard in Paris, France. - [Son / Sin](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/sin-son) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Tomaž Šalamun, translated by Sonja Kravanja. I was trading. I wanted to plant my innocence into my son. - [Shortage of the Renaissance / Pomanjkanje renesanse](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/pomanjkanje-renesanse-shortage-of-the-renaissance) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Tomaž Šalamun, translated by Thomas Kane. I caressed my son’s soft little head and named him Sékou... - [Meditations on Death / Meditacije o smrti](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/meditacije-o-smrti-meditations-on-death) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Tomaž Šalamun, translated by Thomas Kane. Why an anchor? Why an anchor on the green hill? - [The Bone / Kost](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/kost-the-bone) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Tomaž Šalamun, translated by Thomas Kane. Solemn is the fight, wrinkled are the city feathers... - [One Hundred Days in the Cave](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/one-hundred-days-in-the-cave) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 essay by Sun Yung Shin. “The person looking for a fixed identity is often the same person looking for God... - [from Notes from the Ravine / Notes du ravin (extraits)](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/from-notes-from-the-ravine) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Philippe Jaccottet, translated by John Taylor. A buzzard slowly spirals upwards in the harsh pre-spring... - [Half-life](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/half-life) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Jeannine Hall Gailey. After you leave the hospital / the sky a disrespectful blaze of blue... - [The Robot Scientist's Daughter [director or dictator]](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/the-robot-scientists-daughter-director-or-dictator) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Jeannine Hall Gailey. Knew she was meant for better things, / but couldn’t marshal the resources... - [Speaking](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/speaking) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Jeff Hardin. The one speaking in fragments / says quilt, / says breath, / says child listening for its mother’s voice - [Presence](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/presence) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Jeff Hardin. I have sat / with nothing more to do / than watch two lizards / roam the trunk of a walnut tree. - [Industrial Gothic](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/industrial-gothic) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Chris Forhan. What we motored past to arrive / at this meadow, this light, this dew - [Snake](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/snake) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Laren McClung. Immersed in whiskey the heart of a snake / is a drink. Nothing good can come - [First Jump](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/first-jump) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Laren McClung. Once in a helicopter in Bao Lac / he hovered over a thicket of bamboo. - [We Came Home Over the Snowy Fields for Christmas](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/we-came-home-over-the-snowy-fields-for-christmas) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Ann Fisher-Wirth. Then the great halls were thrown open. / The lady of that place gave everyone a gift — / cakes stiff with age, hoarded in the larder. - [Damsel](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/damsel) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Daneen Bergland. Dear Villain, / When you tie me down this time, / I’d like to be facing the tunnel. - [Pinball Hinge](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/06/pinball-hinge) - Cerise Press, Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6 poem by Daneen Bergland. The image splits at the hinge and mirrors: / symmetry is invented. - [Longfellow](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/longfellow) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Annie Finch. Two close centuries of stone and cloth and paper / chalked your cheeks and carved... - [Night Clouds / 乌云](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/night-clouds) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 "Night Clouds" by Yang Zi, translated by Ye Chun, Melissa Tuckey, and Fiona Sze-Lorrain. - [Desolation / 荒凉](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/desolation) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 "Desolation" by Yang Zi, translated by Ye Chun, Melissa Tuckey, and Fiona Sze-Lorrain. - [Rouge / 胭脂](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/rouge) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5, "Rouge" by Yang Zi, translated by Ye Chun, Melissa Tuckey, and Fiona Sze-Lorrain. - [Moody / Küskün](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/moody) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Gonca Özmen, translated by George Messo. I took your face, set it in sea / A pensive myth... - [Ancient Beauty / 仕女 (Shinu)](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/shinu-ancient-beauty) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 art by Ye Chun. Shinu / Ancient Beauty - [Cursed / La Condenada](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/la-condenada-cursed) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 fiction by Adolfo Cáceres Romero, translated by Kathy S. Leonard. - [Concerning Flux / Sur Flux](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/sur-flux-concerning-flux) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 photography by Claire Paoletti. I am not a photographer. I am a screenwriter who engages in the art of photography... - [Apartheid Blues / Le Blues de l'apartheid](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/apartheid-blues) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 photography by José Bidarra. Apartheid Blues. - [On the Road of Nordesta / Sur la route de Nordesta](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/sur-la-route-de-nordesta-on-the-road-of-nordesta) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 photography by Antoine Olivier. In 1980, Anita Studer, a Swiss ornithologist, arrived in the Northeast region... - [The Path of Painting / Chemin peignant](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/chemin-peignant-the-path-of-painting) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 art by Maurice Fryson. The work of Maurice Fryson, who was born in 1930, stretches over more than forty years... - [The Old Place / 旧地](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/the-old-place) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Bei Dao, trans. by Clayton Eshleman and Lucas Klein. Death always observes/a painting from behind... - [Prague / 布拉格](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/prague) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Bei Dao, trans. by Clayton Eshleman and Lucas Klein. Swarming country moths assault the city / street lamps, spectral faces... - [Preludes and Fugues, Cycle D / Préludes et fuges, Cycle D](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/preludes-and-fugues-cycle-d) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Emmanuel Moses, translated by Marilyn Hacker. It will be emptied bit by bit / but fire won’t cleanse... - [Mulberry Grove / Dutluk](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/mulberry-grove) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 poem by Gonca Özmen, translated by George Messo. Come to the mulberry grove / Far from houses... - [The Day of the Dead, Powązki Cemetery / Święto Zmarłych na Powązkach](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/the-day-of-the-dead-powazki-cemetery) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Krzysztof Piechowicz, translated by Daniel Bourne. More... Always more of the living... With each step inside the... - [Two Journeys / Dwie Podróże](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/two-journeys) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Tadeusz Dziewanowski, translated by Daniel Bourne. We are traveling to the south... Through the back doors... - [Four Dreams of the Borderlands / Cztery Sny o Kresach](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/four-dreams-of-the-borderlands) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Tadeusz Dziewanowski, translated by Daniel Bourne. - [I Hear Someone Calling My Name in the Air / 我听见空气里有人在喊我的名字](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/i-hear-someone-calling-my-name-in-the-air) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2010-11, Vol. 2 Issue 5 "I Hear Someone Calling My Name in the Air" (Yang Zi) translated by Ye Chun, Melissa Tuckey, Fiona Sze-Lorrain. - [Ash Wednesday / Popielec](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/ash-wednesday) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Krzysztof Piechowicz, translated by Daniel Bourne. From the hair on the forehead... From the lips the... - [One Thousand Birds Fallen Dust / Mille oiseaux la poussière](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/mille-oiseaux-la-poussiere-one-thousand-birds-fallen-dust) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Pierre Peuchmaurd, translated by E.C. Belli. The blackbird’s face, the whale’s frontal bone, the tiger’s quill feather. We are without a mind. We have a difficult mind. We have a difficult mind because it’s like us... - [Ashtray Low Tide / Cendrier marée basse](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/cendrier-maree-basse-ashtray-low-tide) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Pierre Peuchmaurd, translated by E.C. Belli. There are bodies, some of them drowned. No doubt now: this place is deserted. A single wall stands where two once stood... - [Scree / Éboulis](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/eboulis-scree) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Pierre Chappuis, translated by Tim Keane and Myriam Moraz. The grass is grated, the alpine pasture, worn out... - [Ordeal 2 / Épreuve 2](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/epreuve-2) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Habib Tengour, translated by Pierre Joris. Om Habiba was the first to go outside. Without a veil. She ran toward the victim. She did not scream faced with the bloody corpse... - [As Far North As Rio de l'Ouro / À la hauteur du Rio de l'Ouro](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/as-far-north-as-rio-de-louro) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Blaise Cendrars, translated by Z. Cody Lee. The cormorants follow behind... Their flight much more sure than... - [Ocean-Letter / Lettre-Océan](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/ocean-letter) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Blaise Cendrars, translated by Z. Cody Lee. The ocean-letter is no new poetic genre... It is a practical... - [Bone-speak / La parole des os](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/bone-speak) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Marie-Claire Bancquart, translated by Christina Cook. Bone-speak spreads. Nothing to hold it back... - [from Belonging / Appartenances (extraits)](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/from-belonging) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Marie-Claire Bancquart, translated by Christina Cook. Outside, the rain dissolves October into Octobers... - [uncertain land petrified mourning / contrée incertaine pétrifiée endeuillée](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/contree-incertaine-petrifiee-endeuillee-uncertain-land-petrified-mourning) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Amina Saïd, translated by Marilyn Hacker. uncertain land petrified mourning...fire iron blood barbed... - [birds of ill omen / oiseaux de mauvais augure](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/oiseaux-de-mauvais-augure-birds-of-ill-omen) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Amina Saïd, translated by Marilyn Hacker. birds of ill omen above black Gorée...basalt boulders... - [what takes root gets lost… / ce qui s’enracine se perd…](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/ce-qui-s-enracine-se-perd) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Auxeméry, translated by Nathaniel Tarn. what takes root...gets lost...falls ill...fades... - [Back to Huang-shan / Retour au Huang-shan](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/retour-au-huang-shan) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Auxeméry, translated by Nathaniel Tarn. The stone which looks like a monkey squatting... - [Serene Vases / Os vasos serenos](https://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/os-vasos-serenos-serene-vases) - Cerise Press, Summer 2010, Vol. 2 Issue 4 poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, translated by Tim Kahl. In the colored porcelain lives an old couple who allow... - [The Straw Sandals / Les Sandales de paille](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/les-sandales-de-paille-the-straw-sandals) - Cerise Press, Fall/Winter 2009-10, Vol. 1 Issue 2 poem by Pierre-Albert Jourdan, translated by John Taylor. As in bowling: but the pins only always wobble... - [Resurrections / Vaskrsenja](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/resurrections) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Senadin Musabegović, translated by Ulvija Tanović. Home alone. Abandoned, with large furniture staring at me... - [Collecting Small Figurines Before Parting / Skupljanje malih figurica pred rastanak](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/collecting-small-figurines-before-parting) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Senadin Musabegović, translated by Ulvija Tanović. In the sound of the cricket your pupils expand... - [Pallor / Bljedilo](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/pallor) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Senadin Musabegović, translated by Ulvija Tanović. As I crouch in the trench out of boredom... - [The Trace of a Woman's Hair Across My Face / Trag ženske kose na licu](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/the-trace-of-a-womans-hair-across-my-face) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Senadin Musabegović, translated by Ulvija Tanović. We argue all night. 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Each of them can’t decide if there is a God / or if there is a self.... - [After the Fire](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/kim-cheng-boey-after-the-fire) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Kim Cheng Boey. The man at the crematorium brings us the tray, all that is left after the gas jets... - [Change Alley](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/03/kim-cheng-boey-change-alley) - Cerise Press, Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3 poem by Kim Cheng Boey. Alley of change utterly changed. The name of the place names the lost decades... - [Satterfield 109, Modern and Classical Languages, the Day After Labor Day](https://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/satterfield-109-modern-and-classical-languages-the-day-after-labor-day) - Cerise Press, Summer 2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1 poem by Diane Gilliam. 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