From The Poems of Dorien Grey available at http://www.glbpubs.com
A word, a smell, a sight, a sound
can without warning
throw an emotional switch
to open the floodgates of memory.
Powerful waves of feeling,
of nostalgia, of longing and loss
rush through the dry riverbeds
of the soul. And for a brief,
agonizingly sweet moment,
love blooms and the past lives.
In the Whirlwind is a poetic storm that frees history from the cages of corruption and puts it in the hands of everyday people. Words are weaved into a new fashion statement that has nothing to do with runways but everything to do with projects!
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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