Adeena Karasick
By Adeena Karasick
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The Schmooze POEM: ‘Bind Me’
From Salome Libretto When to cut is to bind, take me and as you come to the tenet of my house. In the bed that is spread across this lexicon bind me in the splendor of our haunting bind me to your wrists to your forearms, your fingers bind me with your leather strapped heritage…
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The Schmooze POEM: ‘BRUJA’
From “Salome Libretto” Through the fercockte gawk-stalkin’ hack stackers of antiquity trickery lexically-licked sticky flickering Salomé, you are bringing in the big guns Opening the sluice gates with your hyper dramatic excess Flexed with swishy riffs, pithy spiff grifters Like a shattered chatter box schadenshow like a discordant accordion like manna from mayhem you are…
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The Schmooze Jewish Poets in the Woods
This is our second feature of poetry written at KlezKanada Poetry Retreat. See the original feature here. Ezra Pound once stated that poets are the antennas of the race. At this year’s KlezKanada Poetry Retreat, which I was privileged to co-coordinate with Jake Marmer, poets composed alongside the timbres and textures of Yiddish music. Traveling…
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