Lit/Pub #IV - The Wake Up Issue - Spring2024
The magazine of Professor Andrea di Robilant literary class at The American University of Rome. "Last year’s issue of Lit/Pub was about the slow return to a post-Covid world. This year, the initial theme was dreams – time to get on with it and think about the future. But the more we discussed what to put in the issue, the more it became apparent that a lingering wariness was still in the air, even a certain complacency. Hence the exhortatory title – The Wake Up Issue – which Isabella Klepikoff has deftly captured in the design of this year’s cover: a wolf resting by a Roman fountain. He looks to be resting, but his lively green eyes tell us he is stirring back to action."
The magazine of Professor Andrea di Robilant literary class at The American University of Rome.
"Last year’s issue of Lit/Pub was about the slow return to a post-Covid world. This year, the initial theme was dreams – time to get on with it and think about the future. But the more we discussed what to put in the issue, the more it became apparent that a lingering wariness was still in the air, even a certain complacency. Hence the exhortatory title – The Wake Up Issue – which Isabella Klepikoff has deftly captured in the design of this year’s cover: a wolf resting by a Roman fountain. He looks to be resting, but his lively green eyes tell us he is stirring back to action."
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Poetry<br />
Three poems by Madelyn Ferber<br />
Things I Know (Peach Trees)<br />
I am only a woman<br />
sitting and waiting for my husband.<br />
For I am a young woman in a crowded room, I mustn't be alone.<br />
Only I know that I am<br />
truly here only to watch.<br />
Every Tuesday,<br />
when my husband,<br />
the one with the empty eyes,<br />
packs his briefcase to sit at his corporate desk, I leave<br />
to sit at my temporary one.<br />
I like to see how people interact.<br />
I find it amusing – the naiveness in city people’s eyes.<br />
How they can be so blissful when Nietzsche says that<br />
capitalism causes depression,<br />
and people are dying across seas, and children<br />
are starving somewhere in Africa.<br />
How they are all human,<br />
all too human.<br />
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