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For the world has begun with the birth of the sun and its death the very same day

My poems "Sudden Death," "The Anniversary," and "'Лондонский маленький призрак'" are now online at Through the Gate. The first of these takes its inspiration (and title) from the character played by Elliott Nugent in The Last Flight (1931), the second is a poem I dreamed of translating during a nightmare in January, and the third is a ghost poem for Aleksei Kruchonykh. Velimir Khlebnikov wrote the definitive ghost poem about him in 1921, a year before the poet died and nearly fifty years before his subject did, so I've quoted it in the title: "Little London ghost." The rest of the issue is imagistic and stellar. I was especially struck by the pieces by Iori Kusano, Ryu Ando, and Fade Manley. Poets should take note that the magazine's format is changing after this issue. If it's the last of its kind, it's a good one.