Norbert Hirschhorn |
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The June Editor's Pick Poet is Norbert Hirschhorn Please feel free to email Norbert at: bertzpoet@yahoo.com |
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ST. MARK’S SQUARE, 1937 black shawl, oval face, black eyes I found the photo in a never revealed, an affair HONEYMOON, SUNDA KALAPA SEAPORT, JAKARTA She thinks I think She thinks I think DANCE OF THE COCKCHAFERS On pleasant evenings, early summer, most are sacrificed. One brave survivor LION, BUDDHA, CAGE Some kind of music plays there. What memory have you lost? Lion in cage or the cage in lion? Shifters’ memory have lost shape *The ‘paradelle’ originated as a faux form invented by US poet Billy Collins in a parody of fixed forms like the villanelle. It, however, has taken on its own life, even spawning an anthology by well-known poets (The Paradelle. Edited by Theresa Welford. Los Angeles: Red Hen Press 2006). As described by Collins, the ‘paradelle’ demands “four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas must be identical. The fifth and sixth lines…must use all the words from the preceding lines and only those words.
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Norbert Hirschhorn received a Master’s in Fine Arts degree from Vermont College in 1994. His poems have been published in over three dozen journals, and four full collections: A Cracked River, Slow Dancer Press, London, 1999; Mourning in the Presence of a Corpse, Dar al-Jadeed, Lebanon, 2008; Monastery of the Moon, Dar al-Jadeed, Lebanon, 2012; To Sing Away the Darkest Days, Holland Park Press, London 2013. Please feel free to visit Norbert's website at www.bertzpoet.com.
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