Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Kinga Fabó: Three Poems


The Transfiguration of the Word

Open, the sea appeared asleep.
Carrying its waves.
A pulse under the muted winter scene.
Throwing a smile on the beach.

A nun-spot on the hot little body.
A color on the broken glass.
A gesture that was once closed.
Lovely as the sea stood up.
Throwing a smile on the beach.

I wanted to remain an object.
But, no, immortality is not mine.
I am too strong to defend myself.
Waiting for punishment.

This and the same happened together.
Silently, I sat in the glass.
Only the spot wandered on the naked scene.
Sounds did not continue.

Only an omitted gesture.
Happiness like an unmoving dancer.
Beatings on naked, bony back.

And the sea will no longer be immortal.

(Translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Martha Satz)


The Suskind Perfume

Now the maestro is rather uninspired
Baptiste procure one like in the olden times
follow her scent   the woman
turns her head   it’s foggy   steal her

smear and wrap her in a sack
let her soak in grease for a time
to preserve her volatility
with her every drop

the grease sucks her in
she cajoles you to follow
the scent on the bodies
of every other women

do you recoil – on all?!
What happens if your yearning
drives you mad
follow her scent
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
(and you, fair scent will evaporate)

(Translated by Gabor G. Gyukics)


Androgen

The bees are tough, hard to break virgins.
Virgins, but different from us humans.
They have no ego. Hermaphrodites. Like the moon.

Butterflies. Phallic souls.
Soul phalluses in female bodies.
The daughter, daughters of the moon

allured me but only until
I figured them out.
As lovers.

I got tired of my ego.
And theirs too.
I’m bored of their services.

It wedges an obstacle between us. Neither
in nor out. In vain
I keep trying. I can break through

mine somehow.
But his? How?
Selfish, inspiring; but for what?

Is he like this by nature,
subservient, dependent?
On me? That’s dispiriting.

He doesn’t even suspect, that I depend on him.
I am the stronger, the unprotected.
Tough as a woman, austere.

Delicate as a man, fragile, gentle.
What would I like? I want him to
wrestle me gently to the floor,

penetrate me violently, savagely.
So I can become empty and neutral.
Impersonal, primarily a woman.

(Translated by Gabor G. Gyukics)

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Kinga Fabó is a Hungarian poet. Her latest book, a bilingual Indonesian-English poetry collectionRacun/Poison was published in 2015 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Fabó’s poetry has been published in various international literary journals including Osiris, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Screech Owl, The Original Van Gogh’s Ear, Numéro Cinq, Deep Water Literary Journal, Fixpoetry, lyrikline.org and elsewhere as well as in anthologies.

Two of her poems have been translated into English by George Szirtes and are forthcoming in Modern Poetry in Translation Spring Issue introduced by Szirtes.

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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Letters To Alice by King Grossman



Meet Frazier Pickett lll, a man who feels that he is just phoning it in. His wife, Margaret  ignores him, his job is on cruise control and there is nothing left to excite him, not even the social injustices that he feels that are his right to protest. Frazier has seen it all and done it all. Then the world is turned upside down when Frazier discovers that beautiful French contemporary artist Anastasie Moreau, not only does he fall for her but makes her his muse.

As Margaret continues to tune out Frazier she slowly comes to the realization that she needs to find courage to claim her birthright and pen the story that is hers alone to write. As she reads the letters from Alice for inspiration, she finds not only a rekindling with Frazier but the secrets she is meant to tell!

This is a story that spans generations with twists, turns and secrets you will enjoy reading about, discuss at book clubs and talk about long after the book is finished. Everyone will want to know… Who is Alice?

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To learn more about King Grossman and Letters To Alice including upcoming events check out his electronic press kit by pressing the following link: http://www.randeegfeldman.com/LTA/LTA/Electronic_Press_Kit.html

Books can be ordered by contacting publisher:
Occupy The Word Publishing, www.occupythewordfoundation.org or
King Grossman, king@kinggrossman.org



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