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friday refrains · regina derieva
Friday 27 June 2008 | I like a cookie
The poem is really the thing, this week—I encountered it via the always rewarding website of poet Annie Finch and fell immediately for its Szymborskaesque (!) melancholy, its epistolary addressed-to-no-one conceit, its rhetorical unfinished-sentence syntax. Exiled first in Israel and now in Sweden, the Odessa-born baptized Catholic—possibly someday a Nobel laureate—is also known for her [...]
