Portrait Without a Mouth
poems
by Andrei Guruianu
Throughout the poems that make up Portrait Without a Mouth, a follow-up to Guruianu’s Made in the Image of Stones, the Angel of History finally turns his head towards the present and lifts his eyes to the future. He sees the same ancient stones dotting the fields, the same ruins dusted off and resurrected only to be toppled again. Of those he meets he asks a single question: Where does history end, and where do we begin? Silence, a shrug of the shoulders. At the end of the day he shakes his head and mutters underneath his breath. Maybe a prayer. Language rearranged into a different version of tomorrow.
Published November 1, 2014
Paperback
BrickHouse Books 