Hit Parade Susan Richardson Margaret Obank Burning in the

Margaret Obank Burning in the Past Tense by Suhail Shadoud

hidden in valleys and even in sea caves

The Berlin Wall has fallen

facing a dangerous future

the way that the large and small events of life dance a quantum quadrille with language in the light received and emitted by the writer's mind

Hit Parade Susan Richardson Margaret Obank Burning in theHit Parade is a bilingual Russian English collection of poems by the four leading authors of the Orbita creative collective, based in Riga, Latvia: Semyon Khanin, Artur Punte, Vladimir Svetlov and Sergej Timofejev. Though their work is primarily written in Russian, the Orbita poets draw on European, Latvian and Russian traditions and contemporary scenes. Founded in 1999, Orbita has published a series of almanacs of literature and visual art and a