Stillhetens sträckta halsar
Translated from Swedish
By Olivia Olsen
these millions of nerves that glimmer / in the dark, bones, luminous / little worms, synapses
Translated from Spanish
By Michelle Gil-Montero
One is the addled letter of my life,
Translated from Arabic
By S. V. Atalla
Her eyes are closed in the still dawn. Snuggled under the covers, nestled in the rosy glow that flows through the window, she wonders, What is time?
Translated from Spanish
By Michelle Gil-Montero
I, brittle, tenebrous man,
Translated from Japanese
By Sawako Nakayasu
When the wind about to unravel her hair runs down through the thicket, it becomes a flame.
Translated from Japanese
By Sawako Nakayasu
Wrapped in a thick wool manteau
purple like the fog
Translated from Spanish
By Christy Rodgers
They’re so filthy! . . . No one can tell me otherwise . . . Filthy, noisy, stupidly crazy.—Me?
Translated from Czech
By Lyn Coffin, Zdenka Brodska
Sugar is dissolving and sweetness is seeping out,
breakfast time.
Translated from Czech
By Lyn Coffin, Zdenka Brodska
With a pocket knife
the world had been cut.
Translated from Basque
By Elizabeth Macklin
She asked us for a pocket radio to listen to the news in the hospital.
Translated from Turkish
By Sidney Wade, Efe Murad
I begin my journey at dawn with my horse
As the large morning bird wakes.
Translated from English
By N/A
The rhythmic stretch of that richness reaches, for me, into Rilke’s lines, into those six charged stresses, gib ihnen noch zwei südlichere Tage, as in "grant them even two more southerly days." Maybe that yearning also shows up in the way he moves, augments, a stanza of three into four and then five lines?
Translated from Arabic
By Fady Joudah
When it was close and had found its way . . .
the sound of its breathing
and the scent by the door told of it.
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Translator: Michelle Gil-MonteroLanguage: Spanish
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Translator: S. V. AtallaLanguage: Arabic
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Translator: Michelle Gil-MonteroLanguage: Spanish
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Translator: Sawako NakayasuLanguage: Japanese
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Translator: Sawako NakayasuLanguage: Japanese
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Translator: Christy RodgersLanguage: Spanish
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Translator: Lyn Coffin, Zdenka BrodskaLanguage: Czech
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Translator: Lyn Coffin, Zdenka BrodskaLanguage: Czech
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Translator: Elizabeth MacklinLanguage: Basque
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Translator: Sidney Wade, Efe MuradLanguage: Turkish
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Translator: N/ALanguage: English
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Translator: Fady JoudahLanguage: Arabic
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Translator: George SzirtesLanguage: Hungarian