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Waiting in the Rain for the Last Streetcar

Geography and Memory In The Writing of Irena Vrkljan 

 

 

Robert Buckeye  

18 p.  2013 

$15

 

Dora, Marina, and I. Three women saying farewell.
Or arriving somewhere,  where the sun still shines.

Dora is Dora Novak, an actress Irena Vrkljan meets when she is working in television in Zagreb. Marina is Marina Tsvetayeva, the Russian poet whose life increasingly becomes Vrkljan's in Berlin. I is Vrkljan the Croatian poet who writes Marina; Or, About Biography.

 

"We have been living and struggling forward along some road that is no road."
-- D.H. Lawrence