Translation of Light
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A collection of new and selected early poems exploring the ground of memory, vision and the illuminations of everyday life.
Ruhama Veltfort
Ruhama Veltfort’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Whispering Campaign, The Antrim Review, The Noe Valley Voice, Sound Journal, and Moonfish. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Whispers of a Dreamer (Hollow Reed Press, 1983) and Miles on the Bridge (Wordrunner Chapbooks, 1997), and two novels, The Promised Land (Milkweed Editions, 1998; Wordrunner Press edition, 2011) and Strange Attractors (Wordrunner Press, 2013). Her memoir, The Things We Do for Love: Stories of My Life was released in June 2010. She lives in San Francisco, California.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ruhama Veltfort is a mystic who lives or has lived in San Francisco. These are perceptive easy verses that invoke the mystery and magic of human connection, intimacy and a leap frog jump from ecstasy into emptiness and back again. Here translations are delightfully idiomatic. I hope she continues to publish...
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Translation of Light - Ruhama Veltfort
Translation of Light
Selected Poems
by Ruhama Veltfort
Published by Wordrunner eChapbooks
(an imprint of Wordrunner Press)
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2014
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Contents
Opening
Sandscape
Shrapnel
Lost Child
Brooklyn, 1963
La Sirena
Zhikr
Susan, Number Four
Early Bird Sutra
Why the Boddhisattva Came to Battery Street: 7:55 AM
The Lightning-Struck Tower
The Well
Why Monks Are Fat
Retreat
Meada in Two Worlds
Looking at the Vault of Heaven
Translations from the Spanish:
Song of the Lovers
Dark Night: Climbing Mount Carmel
Flame
About Ruhama Veltfort
About Wordrunner eChapbooks
Opening
Some of these doors have been closed for a very long time
Some of these locks appear to be rusted shut
Some