Get your mind off the cold winter weather for a moment and enter into the dreamlike space of this week's vintage poetry pick, "The Centaur Festival." Miho Nonaka's short but scintillatingly detailed poem will once again take readers away to celebrate with mysterious creatures in a foreign realm, just as it did when it originally appeared in DB 3, Fall/Winter 2001-2002.
"...Fish-mouthed, you pass through rows
Of acetylene torches, the stalls of tortoise shell candies,
Cinnamon water, and bottles of five-pointed sand grains-"
Miho Nonaka is a bilingual poet from Tokyo, Japan and a professor of English at Wheaton College. Her poetry and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and journals. For more about Nonaka's publications and research, check out her page on Wheaton's website.
Click here to read "The Centaur Festival"
Get your mind off the cold winter weather for a moment and enter into the dreamlike space of this week's vintage poetry pick, "The Centaur Festival." Miho Nonaka's short but scintillatingly detailed poem will once again take readers away to celebrate with mysterious creatures in a foreign realm, just as it did when it originally appeared in DB 3, Fall/Winter 2001-2002.
"...Fish-mouthed, you pass through rows
Of acetylene torches, the stalls of tortoise shell candies,
Cinnamon water, and bottles of five-pointed sand grains-"
Miho Nonaka is a bilingual poet from Tokyo, Japan and a professor of English at Wheaton College. Her poetry and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and journals. For more about Nonaka's publications and research, check out her page on Wheaton's website.
Click here to read "The Centaur Festival"