What better way to start the year than with this series of aphoristic poems by David Giannini? They appear in the first of what I hope will be many issues of Talisman Magazine online, where you’ll also find a clutch of unpublished late poems by the inimitable Samuel Menashe; a group of strange and resonant poems by Lale Müldür, translated from the Turkish by Lisa Bourbeau; and an excerpt from the never published but nevertheless legendary novel Junior Birdman (“The Holy Grail has but one drop left in it: the spirit of childhood”), by William J.Read More