“On the Threshold” (“In Limine”) was originally published in Eugenio Montale’s first volume of verse, Cuttlefish Bones (Ossi di seppia, 1925). It is a short poem in four stanzas: the first and third stanzas have five lines each; the second… Read More ›
Imtiaz Dharker calls herself a Scottish Muslim Calvinist and writes in English. Her No-man’s Land first appeared in her second volume of poetry, Postcards from God. This poem begins with a stark visual image and a hair-raising auditory one: “A… Read More ›
I Want To Meet … Armed, upright and shielded in armourI went forth –but from fear was the coat of mail castand from shame. I want to throw down my weapons,sword and shield.All the stark hostilitywas my coldness. I have… Read More ›