Charles Bukowski is coming over for dinner, and I don’t know what to make him. My bookworm friends tell me to just fill my fridge with beer. I have a pretty big fridge, so I ask, are you sure I should fill ...
Reckoning with Bukowski Translated by Timea Sipos
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to agnieszka osiecka
laments
why write them
mourn
shed tears forcefully
she is gone
she lived
and departed
it’s clear
she won’t run after maggie
the fool ...
4 Poems Translated by Wioletta Polanski
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Poem by: Wadiʿ Saʿada
Translated by: Mahmoud Hosny
From the collection of poems Muhawalat Wasl Diffatayni Bi-sawt (Attempt to Connect Two Shores with Sound) (Beirut: Dar al-Nahaar, 1997)
This lake is ...
Restoring a Dissolved Person translated by: Mahmoud Hosny
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DIOS
Cuando me muera, no quiero vestirme
ni con la estrella, la cruz, o la luna,
ni con el cisne y el collar de pétalos de loto,
ni con el negro, ni con el blanco, ni con su ...
God, Gift, & Endless Cipher Translated by Zachary Rockwell Ludington
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Line of Vision
Translation by: Sue Vickerman
Face it, Irene Mattasch, she told herself: your day is over. Nowadays, Arnold Mattasch’s days were all that mattered. These had a start, a midpoint, and an ...
Line of Vision Translated by Sue Vickerman
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translated from the Romanian by Marius Surleac and Marc Vincenz
Leave the birds
hidden among the cracks
in the brick wall
when day retreats
under the gaslight of first stars
and cannot return;
through its ...
Two Poems by Ion Monoran
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translated by Meryl Natchez and Karina McCorkle
To Faina, galya, mother, father, grandmother, valya, sveta, and all the others living and dead [1]
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when we lived in Siberia
we were hollowed out
we were ...
Excerpted from “When we lived in Siberia” by Oksana Vasyakina
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translated by Walid Abdallah and Andy Fogle
Love in a Time of Terrorism
Where did you come from?
What land gave you your life?
The horizon is studded with pieces of fire.
Who said that the jasmine ...
Two Poems by Farouk Goweda
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The New God
We looked at the map
All those rivers we had crossed
searching for that new god
the priests said
was born for our sake
When we reached his homeland
We found crowds
marching in his funeral ...
Three Poems by Sinan Antoon
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