Volume 1, Issue 6 (September/October 2015)
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015: CONTEST WINNER
Nha Trang, 1968.
"...Rise with the mists and the tide
Ride with the wind and glide
On verbal convection
Fervent conviction
Unerring direction
Convex inflection
Sham elections..."
EKPHRASTIC PIECE
"Immigration
Hustler’s motivation
Covert exploitation
Tests of tribulation...
...Establish new locations
Outposts of cultivation
Cultural validation
A matrix of celebration..."
AZURE ORIGINAL SERIES: INSTALLMENT 3
AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (Act 2 - Part 1) - Sakina B. Fakhri
For the next several months, AZURE will publish serial installments of Aurelia: A Ballet in Prose, a contemporaneously unfolding novel by Sakina B. Fakhri.
For the next several months, AZURE will publish serial installments of Aurelia: A Ballet in Prose, a contemporaneously unfolding novel by Sakina B. Fakhri.
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"Amidst the Christian revivalist sermons of Savonarola and the staunch philosophy of humanism propounded by Pico della Mirandola, the rule of the city of Florence - as befitting its mercantilistic roots - fell to the alternating favor of two of the largest banking families of Italy: The Pazzi and the Medici. Their fluctuating and oft-exchanged loyalties to the Papacy signified only the currency of their battle - which, if we are to come to the heart of it, was a battle of accounts, of precision and posturing. And why should it not be so! The masques of the ancients - Apollo brought to life, the actor seething in all manner of expression beneath the stoic exterior crafted for him by the artisans his countrymen, paraded before the populace in a show, a demonstration of *what could be accomplished*."
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For the libretto establishing the storyline and plot structure, see AZURE Volume 1, Issue 4.
Customized illustrations for all published pieces are provided by Evgenia Barsheva.