The great novel “Stoner” by the American distinguished author John Edward Williams deals with the life and times of one of the most successful “losers” of world literature – the hero of the same name, who from a rural child managed to become a university professor of English Literature.
The poem “And Death Shall Have no Dominion”, by the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, is dedicated to the death-ologists and death-lovers of Medicine, Epidemiology, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical who systemic cooperate, at least the last two years, for the (well)coming of the Big Brother Brave New World.
With the publication of the short story “Exterminator!” from the book of the same title, who wrote the important American author William S. Burroughs, the editorial team of “Kalliergeia” states that this second in the series of science fiction summer, seems that the Hygiene of the Race is Über Alles.
Because we still consider this period incomprehensible and the formation of its Normality, rather deliberately Non-Normal, we instruct to one of the most ecumenical important Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert to speak for us with his major poem “Damastes (Also Known as Procrustes) Speaks”.
Participating the “Kalliergeia” in the festive – strictly at home – atmosphere of theese days, presents from the Sex Pistols on board concert on the river Thames of the year 1977 – the celebration year of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II – the tender ballad of the band entitled “God Save The Queen”.
At a time when the American police seem to have gone hunting for black citizens with painful results, we publish here the poem of the important African-American writer and civil rights activist Maya Angelou, entitled “Still I Rise”. The poem is included in its poetic collection of 1978, that bears the title “And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems”.
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