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The Iliad stands on the shelf beside <\/strong><\/p>\n The breakfast table, a bookmark slowly making<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Its way through, as those ancient revenants glide<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Across yet one more screen, their gestures vacant<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Of so much we have known. No arch or column<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0For them, no schools that labored to explain,<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0No Phidias has poised the body\u2019s volume<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Nor vase-painter contained it in a line.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Their bodies are the only forms there are,<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Their gods that come and go like flaws of wind<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0The only spirit. Conscience and eye are clear,<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Unshadowed by a thought of having sinned.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Their poet, though, had guessed invention\u2019s force \u2015<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Had seen robots, and automatic doors.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Esther Cameron (1941 \u2014 ) (a.k.a. E. Kam-Ron) is Editor-in-Chief of The Deronda Review (derondareview.org) and also has a multifaceted website, pointandcircumference.com. She has a PhD. and a J.D; her sonnets have appeared in B\u2019Or Ha\u2019Torah, Bellowing Ark, The Lyric, Sonnetto Poesia, The Susquehanna Review and Voices Israel, among others. Recent publications include Fortitude or the Lost Language of Justice: Poems in Israel\u2019s Cause (Bitzaron, 2009) and a sonnet sequence, To Guard the Soul of Youth, in B\u2019Or Ha\u2019Torah 21. She is also one of the translators in a collection of Reuven Ben-Yosef\u2019s poems, On the Bridge (Bitzaron, 2011). She was the judge of the 2011 Reuben Rose competition. She has written sonnets since the age of fifteen and feels that the form has mystic properties as well as being an efficient container of information.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Richard Vallance, editor-in-chief. The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: Anthology of sonnets of the early third millennium = Le Ph\u00e9nix renaissant de ses cendres : Anthologie de sonnets au d\u00e9but du troisi\u00e8me mill\u00e9naire. Friesen Presse, Victoria, B.C., Canada. \u00a9 2013. approx. 240 pp. ISBN Hardcover: 978-1-4602-1700-9 Price: $28.00 Paperback: 978-1-4602-1701-6 Price: $18.00 e-Book: 978-1-4602-1702-3 Price: TBA<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 300 sonnets & ghazals in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese & Persian.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> 30 sonnets in this anthology are to be pre-published by our permission in Poetry Life & Times (UK) which has exclusive sole rights prior to the publication of the anthology itself. Readers may also contact Richard Vallance, Editor-in-Chief, at: vallance22@gmx.com for further information.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>http:\/\/vallance22.hpage.com\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n