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Nicholas Karavatos


 

OXFORD MUSIC SAMPLER

 

   
The Nabokov who composed The Death of Rasputin
Who by highways and byways
Found Iberia and a bullfight
 
First note on the nighttime
Scent of a natural scale
 
Or another note in German
Knights the obligatory organist of church music
 

[Sixth degree of the major] [First degree of the minor]

An English soprano sings Desdemona
Vibrations to tune in on
 
Suddenly the left hand makes
The sign of the choir
At Helsinki
Singing Ayres that make masters of children if they survive
The coffee cantata doxology
 
The right hand swells responding to Rachmaninov with negligent abandon
 
Viola waltz
Ox minuet
The Owl and the Pussy Cat
 
In the key of liberation
From individual characteristics

 


Nicholas Karavatos is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Graduate of Humboldt State University in Arcata and New College of California's Poetics Program in San Francisco. Poems have appeared in After the Fallen, Blackbox, Certain Stones, Cherry Bleeds, Country Activist, debt, Earth First! Radical Environmental Journal, EcoNews, Edge City Magazine, Humboldt-Central American Solidarity Newsletter, Juke Jar, Log, Minotaur, mirage[periodical], Paisley Moon, PoetsWest Online, Prophetic Voices, Prosodia, San Fernando Poetry Journal, Steelhead Special, Thieves Jargon, Tight, Travelling Poet, Toyon, Unlikely Stories and What the Hell.

 

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