Salt Bride
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Salt Bride

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eBook - ePub

Salt Bride

About this book

The poems in this collection are sculpted like carnallite crystals and come together as elegiac meditations, drawing on history, and on mythology. Beauty and pathos are wound in a tangle of exile, and find a home. Offering free verse, prose poems, haibun and haiku. Ilona Martonfi uses her poetry to build on her activism as a tool for achieving goals, taking a stand. The book's five sections are composed of poetry of witness, ekphrastic poems, resistance poems, erasure poems, dream poems, persona poems, elegies.

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Project 1: Ice Watch Paris
Lassoed, scarred. Calving. The outer frame, space it invents
unfurling orbicular margins. Unrelenting. Birdcage elevators. Dreamed up. Eighty-eight tons icebergs harnessed from Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland; glacier obelisks left to melt on Place du Panthéon: put your hand to it. Hear the sound. Rive Gauche.
Everyday life frescoes. Unfinished cast iron stairways.
Quartier Latin mausoleum, hills of the Montagne
Sainte-Geneviùve, 5ùme arrondissement. “Come,” they said. Decorate the chaste. Distorting. Dressed like a pauper. Toiling away in your atelier. Concealing nakedness. You have lost the key. Nearly blind. You mourn. You ought to. Your Ɠuvre.
Sea Hedgehog
It happened here
right where you’re standing
millions of years ago
during Earth’s history
under a coral sun
aragonite rock formation
extinct genus of echinoids
clouds of eggs and sperm
postcoital beginning.
Reef knolls, yellow mud
here, here, and here
eyeless sea urchins
carpeting an algae forest
underworld of rules.
Anoxic sediments
bring testimonies of
compulsive wasting.
Rasping habits.
Warm, shallow seas.
What about it? Is it all over?
Limestone bedding
under a coral sun
gamma pictures
losing their spine and dying.
Ourselves the other
tiny beating heart.
At a Lille Pawn Shop in 1911...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. ADVANCE PRAISE
  3. Copyright
  4. Title Page
  5. Dedication
  6. ALSO BY ILONA MARTONFI
  7. Contents
  8. I.
  9. Shinkolobwe
  10. The Fourth Panel: Ghosts
  11. Requiem (Anna Akhmatova)
  12. Babi Yar
  13. Flowers Grow in Birkenau
  14. Srebrenica
  15. Wormwood
  16. Chernobyl Evacuee’s Lament, Polesskoye Village
  17. Ráhel’s Mother
  18. The Grave in the Woods
  19. “Imagine”
  20. Rocking Horse
  21. II.
  22. Earth from a Cellar
  23. Washi Tales
  24. Small River
  25. La Valse
  26. Zweeloo Girl
  27. Magdalen Laundry
  28. Great-aunt Katarina Speaks of Grandmother
  29. Easter Sunday
  30. The Bat
  31. Degas’ Les Petits Rats
  32. Winter on Pine Avenue
  33. The Vigil on Puget Sound
  34. An Elegy for her Brother
  35. III.
  36. Erota
  37. Night in the Repossessed House (Daughter)
  38. Cul na Móna Bog Woman: Éire
  39. Ca’ del Pomo Granà (The House of the Pomegranate Tree)
  40. Sea Urchin
  41. Cathédrale Chartres, 1989
  42. The Gift
  43. Éloïse in the Dream of Hochelaga
  44. Gladioli for Giuseppa MulĂš
  45. Monet’s Alice HoschedĂ© in the Garden
  46. White Lilacs
  47. Ma Tante Noémie
  48. IV.
  49. Van Gogh’s De straat
  50. ZsĂłfia at the Ballet Barre
  51. Casa dei Zettii
  52. La MĂŽme Piaf
  53. The Stone People of Pompeii
  54. Repossession
  55. Girl in Dubrulle Wood
  56. The Yellow House
  57. Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-RĂ©my-de-Provence
  58. V.
  59. Project 1: Ice Watch Paris
  60. Sea Hedgehog
  61. At a Lille Pawn Shop in 1911
  62. Funeral Prayer for Alan KurdĂź
  63. Village of the Plum Tree
  64. GuĂ°rĂșn, Blind Daughter of Louhi
  65. Les Lauves
  66. Les Lauves, 2
  67. FĂžroyar
  68. Inuk Man
  69. Masipa
  70. Acknowledgements