Cemetery Ink
Poems
Published on 6. April 2021
97 pages
978-0-8229-8824-3 (ISBN)
Description
In poems of compassion and social justice, Mihaela Moscaliuc probes borders and memory to work through, and further complicate, understandings of belonging-from places (including her native Romania) and histories, to ways of knowing, loving, and grieving. If the wounded populate these poems, so too do goats, black swans, centipedes, dismembered dolls, and wandering wombs. The ekphrastic sequence on Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy honors stories of Roma people while addressing issues of (mis)representation and epistemic violence. As in previous collections, cemeteries become sites of power, holding the living accountable.
The homeless women of Iasi
So many shouting at no one, disputing
accusations, nodding maniacally,
flogging trees with headscarves-
their pantomimes re-populate
sidewalks with ousted ghosts.
They pose no threat
but we detour cautiously,
afraid their siren voices might awaken
the penal colony in our ribcage.
The homeless women of Iasi
So many shouting at no one, disputing
accusations, nodding maniacally,
flogging trees with headscarves-
their pantomimes re-populate
sidewalks with ousted ghosts.
They pose no threat
but we detour cautiously,
afraid their siren voices might awaken
the penal colony in our ribcage.
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Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections Immigrant Model and Father Dirt and the translator of Liliana Ursu's Clay and Star and Carmelia Leonte's The Hiss of the Viper. Her awards include two Glenna Luschei Awards, residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, MacDowell, and Le Chateau de Lavigny, and a Fulbright fellowship to Romania. She is associate professor of English at Monmouth University.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Black swan
- The homeless women of Iasi
- After tram 2 leaves the depot
- The house
- Maggot therapy
- Wandering womb borrows language from Aretaeus, 2nd century
- Bread
- Americana
- From the rented window
- The fortuneteller
- Transatlantic
- I should be able to tell when the end is near
- Mosquito
- *
- from The Book of Salt
- Blessing
- Milk ramble
- Pollutants
- Carne de los Muertos
- Elegy for my mother's employer
- Kitchen talk
- Sortilege, strawberry fields
- Syn-
- Empathy test
- *
- Assimilation: The Lamancha goat
- Goatscape
- Culpable metaphors: On Henri Rousseau's La Bohémienne Endormie, or Sleeping Gypsy
- *
- La isla de las muñecas
- OB-GYN clinic, Iasi, Romania, 2015
- Brains
- Mess up for beauty
- John Cale's 75th birthday concert, NYC
- Creature
- On lava
- After Hadrian, in praise of desire
- Love poem with chute
- Stump
- Forget the blossoms
- Erotic
- Self as goat in tree
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
