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    Around the Sun Without a Sail
    Around the Sun Without a Sail
    Around the Sun Without a Sail
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    Around the Sun Without a Sail

    By Richard Fenwick

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    With subtle brush strokes, Richard Fenwick paints small moments on his canvas to reveal the essence of our shared, human experience. From Helsinki to Japan to the Kola Peninsula near the Barents Sea, he steers us across a universe of the familiar and unfamiliar, exposing a simple notion: that we are all drifting together, Around the Sun Without a Sail.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Fenwick
    Release dateMar 21, 2017
    ISBN9781370659036
    Around the Sun Without a Sail
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    Richard Fenwick

    Richard Fenwick is a poet, book designer, and Russian translator who works with Holocaust survivors from the Soviet Union, translating their histories for publication. Richard's poetry has been featured in numerous journals and quarterlies in America and in the UK.

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      Around the Sun Without a Sail - Richard Fenwick

      Around the Sun Without a Sail

      Poems by

      Richard Fenwick

      Copyright © 2017 by Richard Fenwick

      All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the author’s prior written approval.

      Published 2012 by Plaid Condor Press

      eISBN: 2017-03-21

      For Marlene Rose Sloss

      1939 – 2011

      …If you were here,

      I’d pluck this trembling globe to show

      how beautiful a thing can be

      a breath will tear away.

      A Dandelion for My Mother

      Jean Nordhaus

      Contents

      Poets of a Dead Language

      Halfway Point

      One Moment

      Helsinki

      Winter Rye

      The Barren Bits

      In Praise of Profanity

      Coffee Shop Noise

      A Short Walk on the Shimokita Peninsula

      Birthday Song

      Two

      And Then the Lighting of the Lamps

      Settling Down

      To the Twenty-Something Girl Who Winked

      The Tin Chair

      River of Faces

      Watermelon

      Council House

      A Minor Ode to Poetry

      Geography

      Three

      Autopsis

      Four

      Burning Matches

      Hiroshima

      Barents Sea Monastery

      Topeka

      Fourth of July

      Before a Cold Front Can Emerge

      Postcard from Russia

      Liliya

      Five

      Four O’clock Poem

      From My Mother’s Eyes

      Pushkin on Twitter

      Andromeda

      Standing Still with Monet

      Back in the Day

      Symmetry

      Hirosaki Castle

      Around the Sun Without a Sail

      Notes

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Poets of a Dead Language

      Place, man, cattle, creature-kind,

           & tree of every image

                    taking place.

         – Akhenaton, 3,400 years ago

      Let’s imagine them in a circle

      at a fire pit that has burned for days,

      and final feathers of

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