Poetry
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Interview with the Author: Christopher Villiers on His New Book “Versing the Mystery”
I often find that an idea for a poem comes to me, like a piece of grit in an oyster, but the pearl of a poem takes time to develop
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“From the Land of Gramscia: Tadogen Girte’s Poems” Translated and With a Brief Introduction by the Poet, Sabyasachi Sanyal.
Her intent, I cannot understand. Though I hand her a thousand Tugrik, still, I cannot understand— how the old pain stirs in new scars.
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More Than Mere Formality: A Treatment of Poetry and the Catholic Mass
If we had seen the poet, first ordered to get up and take his place in a comic and indecent ballet, and then, seated and honoured with wine and spontaneously beginning his tragic lay at the inner prompting for a goddess, we should never again forget the distinction.
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A Pentecost Poem
Not as a dove, the Spirit came, But He proclaimed in licking flame.
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Of a Dried Up Flower
“But finding the meadows here/ In the place where you give/ The flowers at times/ So small and seemingly imperceptible”
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Theme of a Dreamer
“He reasoned to himself, mused muttering/ As he reconsidered reckless hate towards himself…”
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On Suffering
“Strange, the undeniable beauty of the moment when I held her weeping on the floor…”
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The Locus 