The Feeling Sonnets by Eugene Ostashevsky Kim Moore Evening Post (NZ)

Evening Post (NZ)

Its story of Rama's quest to recover his wife Sita from her abduction by Raavana

The outcome is poetry that might count for something

and deep clarity

some can be said as personal mantras or just poems full of words that you can't help but smile when you hear them

The Feeling Sonnets by Eugene Ostashevsky Kim Moore Evening Post (NZ)The Feeling Sonnets are written in an English that is translingual not only because it engages other languages but also because it reflects upon itself in uncertainty as if it were the work of a language learner. Words, idioms, sentences, poetic conventions are made strange, dislocated, recontextualised to convey some of the linguistic effects of the migration experience, the experience of non nativeness. The book includes four cycles of fourteen