kaffe in katmandu // Fraction Factions

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Read the poem on kaffeinkatmandu.tumblr.com
A poem I wrote two years ago that was just published on kaffe in katmandu, an arts/literature blog. Were I writing this poem now I would substitute the word "climaxing" for "ejaculating" since men without prostate glands do not ejaculate. When I fully recover from my prostate surgery I hope to still be a 40%er.

Eden | New York Journal of Books

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David Cooper's review of Yael Hedaya's novel Eden compares Jessica Cohen's translation with Ms. Hedaya's original Hebrew. The novel features two marriages and a teenage girl all of whom are at-risk and in varied states of distress. 

 

Read the entire review on nyjournalofbooks.com

 

Photos from our mini-vacation in Nashua, NH

Three views from Mine Falls Park in Nashua (which has lovely paved walking and unpaved hiking trails):

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Above: Looking west from Main street in Nashua: view of an old mill building (now apartments) with fountain.

NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS: Blue Has No South by Alex Epstein

Blue Has No South, Alex Epstein’s first book to be translated into English, is a book of 114 surreal, absurd, and/or paradoxical very short stories or flash fiction. To this reviewer’s eyes and ears many of these very short texts are also prose poems, though they are not referred to as such by the author or the publisher...