Night, avenue, street lamp, the drug store,
Irrational and dusky light.
Live another two, three decades
It stays the same; there's no way out.
You'll die, then start again, beginning
And everything unfolds as old:
Night, the canal's icy ripple,
The drug store, avenue, and lamp.
Friday, March 16, 2007
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About Me
- Larissa Shmailo
- Larissa Shmailo's new poetry CD is Exorcism (http://cdbaby.com/cd/shmailo2) and her new book is In Paran (BlazeVOX 2009). She has been published in Barrow Street, Drunken Boat, Fulcrum, Rattapallax, Lungfull!, Big Bridge, About: Poetry, and other publications. She has received “Critic’s Pick” notices for her readings and radio appearances from the New York Times, the Village Voice, and Time Out magazine. She translated the Russian Futurist opera Victory over the Sun by A. Kruchenych, performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, and at theaters and museums internationally. She recently contributed translations to the anthology Contemporary Russian Poetry from Dalkey Archive Press. Her first poetry CD, The No-Net World, has received rave reviews and is frequently heard on radio and Internet broadcasts in the U.S. and the U.K. Visit Larissa at http://www.myspace.com/larissashmailoexorcism http://www.myspace.com/thenonetworld
