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 />
the beast<br />
i wish for all<br />
the wrongdoings of the world to lay<br />
at my fingertips.<br />
to wait for my manipulation.<br />
i will twist and pull until they are<br />
what i wish them to be. for all<br />
the mountainous damage<br />
the world lays in my path,<br />
i will make it small enough to tread<br />
over.<br />
i fear that one day,<br />
when it comes to the great fall,<br />
when i fall off the wall, no one will be able<br />
to put me back together again.<br />
maybe one day the world will<br />
positively swallow me whole–<br />
another victim<br />
in the belly<br />
of<br />
the beast.<br />
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