田野（一）| 田野（二）
Translated from Chinese
By Anni Liu
Nightfall at the field, dark clouds roll
Canção da calamidade
Translated from Portuguese
By Robert Smith
so many clothes hung out
on the sambadrome grates in july
washed out.
Pukanie w ramię
Translated from Polish
By Eliza Marciniak
He pulled something out and handed it to me with the gesture of a conspirator from a slapstick film.
Hrabal
Translated from Polish
By Eliza Marciniak
I was given a child. A small nine-month-old, for a few hours.
El pasaporte perdido
Translated from Spanish
By Suzanne Jill Levine, Katie Lateef-Jan
Sitting on the cabin bed, she was reading her passport like a prayer book.
El vestido verde aceituna
Translated from Spanish
By Suzanne Jill Levine, Katie Lateef-Jan
The display windows came forward to meet her. She had left the house only to go shopping that morning.
El jardín de las tumbas
Translated from Spanish
By Matthew Gleeson, Audrey Harris
At forty years old he still couldn’t conquer his fear of the dark.
La sacerdotisa de la montaña
Translated from Spanish
By Thomas Bunstead
The moment of the birth comes back to her again. The dazzling hospital lights, the pain in her belly like someone stabbing her with shards of glass.
Teoria próżni
Translated from Polish
By Mira Rosenthal
I wish you were here, I say once again.
Szczegóły
Translated from Polish
By Mira Rosenthal
This is the story of my confusion: January,
the lamp posts wrapped in fog, spun cotton candy.
Kiedy kwitną akacje?
Translated from Polish
By Mira Rosenthal
Who is it that sustains this world? The summer
will be so beautiful. We bathed in the stream
لعبة السيل
Translated from Arabic
By Yasmine Seale
I will say that I am your lover (just saying)
You will say to me: my love (just a word)
لعبة المختلف
Translated from Arabic
By Yasmine Seale
I will play with you at being a mother (because I have never been a true one)
And you will play with me at being a man (because)
لعبة العقل
Translated from Arabic
By Yasmine Seale
I will pretend to have reason
And you will pretend to be mad
Cuerpos
Translated from Spanish
By Christina MacSweeney
Vertigo. My body is a crash test dummy. As if the car I’m travelling in has braked and as I’m not wearing my seat belt, the swivel chair launches me towards the windscreen that is my desk. Neither my body nor I know what is going on. My body works it out first: my mind says: this is an earthquake, the ground is moving, but I’m already on my feet, standing by the door, turning the key.
أغنية لطائر البرق
Translated from Arabic
By Mona Kareem
Sleep quiet and safe
seven rose bushes will guard your sleep
and a bird whistling a heavenly tune,
Sleep quiet:
Keep the ending open
and shut the door tight,
and if they knock,
Do not open
A Máquina de Ser
Translated from Portuguese
By Edgar Garbelotto
I only knew how to drink a glass of wine at dawn, and that was enough for me to venture out with my ideas a little, which would soon return to me in my natural bed—cloudy, almost bronze—where the waters descended with gentle fate and put my machine of being to work
Hoa ngày trên đỉnh
Translated from Vietnamese
By Hai-Dang Phan
Hibiscus by the fence under the morning sky
a rooster crowing at midday
last night the sound of sadness
stepping with naked feet
into the house on stilts by the stream
I listen to your voice in the final moments
Buổi chiều mặc áo đỏ
Translated from Vietnamese
By Hai-Dang Phan
I dream a bloody dream
as the afternoon goes into labor
Tôi, mùa hè, và ruồi
Translated from Vietnamese
By Hai-Dang Phan
Summer wears all white
a worn out convention
B시에서 일어날 일
Translated from Korean
By Hedgie Choi, Soeun Seo, Jake Levine
The outskirts of City B, a professional exfoliator lives there and an undertaker uncle who waits for the dead also lives there and also a very proud but unlicensed doctor. If I lie on his wooden plank, he pricks my toes for free. I wonder, shouldn’t I be spreading something too?
결벽증 남자가 씻으러 간 사이
Translated from Korean
By Hedgie Choi, Soeun Seo, Jake Levine
Is it because of infinite germs? The unspeakable psychological filth? Is it because of the soap stuck to the soap that you wash, wash, rewash? Go ahead, wash until there’s nothing left. Until your face is gone and your shape is squashed.
Pentimento
Translated from Spanish
By Jasmine V. Bailey
Shhh
a lake carries you nowhere
what’s more
it’s a swamp
a depth that founders
doesn’t let me touch the bottom doesn’t let me go
like a mouth
swallowing words.
Karoliniškių varlės
Translated from Lithuanian
By Elizabeth Novickas
That evening I realized I wasn’t going to bear that mocking of the frogs any longer. The ruptured sack of patience splattered me with hate, uncontrollable irritation, and spiritual vomit. I leapt out into the stairway naked, at that moment completely forgetting what world I was living in.
"L’un s’appelait Mandelbaum"
Translated from French
By Marilyn Hacker
I now recall there was also a Faigenbaum (fig tree). A very solitary drinker.
Dessin d'enfant
Translated from French
By Marilyn Hacker
The swing creaked in the evening sunlight. Above it, there was a rainbow.
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Translator: Robert SmithLanguage: Portuguese
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Translator: Eliza MarciniakLanguage: Polish
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Translator: Eliza MarciniakLanguage: Polish
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Translator: Suzanne Jill Levine, Katie Lateef-JanLanguage: Spanish
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Translator: Suzanne Jill Levine, Katie Lateef-JanLanguage: Spanish
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Translator: Matthew Gleeson, Audrey HarrisLanguage: Spanish
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Translator: Thomas BunsteadLanguage: Spanish
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Translator: Mira RosenthalLanguage: Polish
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Translator: Mira RosenthalLanguage: Polish
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Translator: Mira RosenthalLanguage: Polish
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Translator: Yasmine SealeLanguage: Arabic
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Translator: Yasmine SealeLanguage: Arabic
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Translator: Yasmine SealeLanguage: Arabic
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Translator: Christina MacSweeneyLanguage: Spanish
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Translator: Mona KareemLanguage: Arabic
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Translator: Edgar GarbelottoLanguage: Portuguese
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Translator: Hai-Dang PhanLanguage: Vietnamese
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Translator: Hai-Dang PhanLanguage: Vietnamese
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Translator: Hai-Dang PhanLanguage: Vietnamese
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Translator: Hedgie Choi, Soeun Seo, Jake LevineLanguage: Korean
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Translator: Hedgie Choi, Soeun Seo, Jake LevineLanguage: Korean
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Translator: Jasmine V. BaileyLanguage: Spanish
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Translator: Elizabeth NovickasLanguage: Lithuanian
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Translator: Marilyn HackerLanguage: French
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Translator: Marilyn HackerLanguage: French