
Carolina Ebeid — Reading Celan in a Subway Station
Poetry Unbound
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Carolina Ibade's poem is an amazing gathering together of the experience of reading something while you're in a subway station. Reconstruction delays, the stench of piss and nothing weather-shaped, nothing ocean-spun. Steam hammers and dynamite tunneled out a labyrinth, this inner ear where Eros doesn't linger. I can't say whether the other commuters stand arrested by this music, the accordion player near the vendor's hutch but it comes toward me, words sorrow, drafting through the high-aligned shell of myself in thought.
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