田野（一）| 田野（二）
Translated from Chinese
By Anni Liu
Nightfall at the field, dark clouds roll
Translated from Vietnamese
By Charles Waugh, Nguyen Lien
There is a saying, A girl has twelve harbors, meaning only at the last will she find shelter. It took me thirteen.
Translated from Polish
By Margret Grebowicz
Poetry was extinguished
in its illiterate sleep.
Translated from Polish
By Margret Grebowicz
During the security check
at the Zurich airport
I stand in the magnetic gate.
Translated from Old English
By John Estes
Lacking metes and bounds, the open-water seems
two-faced and brazen
Translated from Old English
By John Estes
The well-born stride their mounts for weight
and sway
Translated from Old English
By John Estes
The whitest grain, heaven’s tempests throw it
swirling down
Translated from Portuguese
By Margaret Jull Costa
Yes, I put the ad in the newspaper. Someone who likes children and would be prepared to look after a few pets as well. Only a couple of dogs and some birds, but then not everyone likes dogs and birds.
Translated from Spanish
By Chris Andrews
Like Paracelsus, the Swiss alchemist who, towards the end of his life, wandered from inn to inn across Europe, paying the innkeepers with gold coins that later turned into sea shells, Alicia Beerle, a girl from Zurich who went to New York to study modern dance, dreamed of drifting from apartment to apartment in Manhattan, paying the landlords with charmed money.
Translated from French
By Neil Blackadder
Maps that show it bending like an elbow or even, approximately, describing a quarter of a circle, don’t begin to convey the feeling you get when you turn into rue Laferrière unexpectedly.
Translated from Serbian
By Ellen Elias-Bursać
Miroslava dreamed she was in a fragile boat being tossed to and fro in the waves, and when she started awake she saw she was in bed, next to Nikola, who was leaning on his left elbow while masturbating with his right hand.
Translated from Spanish
By Forrest Gander
On paunchy green hills
in some province of China, I speak to you.
Translated from French
By Marilyn Hacker
Without knowing us the dog rushes to greet us
from the path at the morning’s most luscious moment
Translated from Japanese
By Jeffrey Angles
In only three years I gave birth to three children, but I let my husband bury one of the babies I’d gone to all the trouble to bear
Translated from Chinese
By Nick Admussen
Cresting this rouge-hued slope of oil slate
You can see the lakewater a secluded place
green brush on the shore so thick you can’t get your foot in
Translated from Chinese
By Nick Admussen
Evening I lie down like a guttering flame
listen to the insects outside the stone house approach and recede
Translated from Italian
By Sarah Stickney
Light snow caresses you
and it falls twice; the snow
that used to fall also falls.
Translated from Italian
By Sarah Stickney
I prefer the dead, I prefer the dead fallen
in battle their names written on the monument in the piazza
so that their children “here read this” tell their children and those children
tell their children but then one day–stop–
Translated from Italian
By Sarah Stickney
Forgive me I sold your brooch
of gold, the one like a branch of gold
to an I-Buy-Gold, to a pale young lady
I sold some rings too
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Translator: Charles Waugh, Nguyen LienLanguage: Vietnamese
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Translator: Margret GrebowiczLanguage: Polish
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Translator: Margret GrebowiczLanguage: Polish
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Translator: Margret GrebowiczLanguage: Polish
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Translator: John EstesLanguage: Old English
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Translator: John EstesLanguage: Old English
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Translator: John EstesLanguage: Old English
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Translator: John EstesLanguage: Old English
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Translator: John EstesLanguage: Old English
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Translator: John EstesLanguage: Old English
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Translator: John EstesLanguage: Old English
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Translator: John EstesLanguage: Old English
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Translator: Margaret Jull CostaLanguage: Portuguese
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Translator: Chris AndrewsLanguage: Spanish
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Translator: Neil BlackadderLanguage: French
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Translator: Ellen Elias-BursaćLanguage: Serbian
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Translator: Robert HassLanguage: Swedish
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Translator: Forrest GanderLanguage: Spanish
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Translator: Marilyn HackerLanguage: French
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Translator: Jeffrey AnglesLanguage: Japanese
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Translator: Nick AdmussenLanguage: Chinese
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Translator: Nick AdmussenLanguage: Chinese
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Translator: Sarah StickneyLanguage: Italian
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Translator: Sarah StickneyLanguage: Italian
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Translator: Sarah StickneyLanguage: Italian