Stillhetens sträckta halsar
Translated from Swedish
By Olivia Olsen
these millions of nerves that glimmer / in the dark, bones, luminous / little worms, synapses
El frío a través de los engranajes
Translated from Spanish
By Dorothy Potter Snyder
We’re running away from the quicksand. That’s what Mom said on the phone to Tía Delmi, who was the only person in the family who hadn’t lost her memory yet.
Todo comienzo
Translated from Spanish
By Jesse Lee Kercheval, Jeannine Pitas
The soft darkness is receptive, it penetrates
with a metallic insect song.
Translated from Japanese
By Ryan Choi
I recollect, treading along
discarded paths,
the lights dissolved in grass.
夜だけは僕を
Translated from Japanese
By Ryan Choi
I happened to be born
the lunatic son.
L'Assassinat
Translated from French
By Donald Nicholson-Smith
The boy stayed where he was, underground, for several hours. Nightfall approached. At long last the horses left, hooves resounding dully on the stones on the far side of the hill.
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
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Translator: Chenxin JiangLanguage: Chinese
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Translator: Chenxin JiangLanguage: Chinese
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Translator: Dorothy Potter SnyderLanguage: Spanish
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Translator: Jesse Lee Kercheval, Jeannine PitasLanguage: Spanish
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Translator: Ryan ChoiLanguage: Japanese
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Translator: Ryan ChoiLanguage: Japanese
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Translator: Ryan ChoiLanguage: Japanese
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Translator: Ryan ChoiLanguage: Japanese
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Translator: Donald Nicholson-SmithLanguage: French
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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