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In you come. You’ve been carting junk
All day; you dump it. Fire up the candles
With a glance. God what a slum.
You slip off your cloak.
You ache an ache as old as time.
Music! Put on ...
3 poems by Lyudmila Knyazeva Translated from the Russian by Richard Coombes
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As the young couple enter the rickety Sol-Ventas tram, the air fills with an exotic aroma, arousing the curiosity of a nun, the only other passenger on board.
She ...
On the Tram by Luisa Carnés Translated by Robin Munby
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Greta Garbo at Kyveleia
..................................My family was poor. I started working at 14, in a beauty
..................................parlor. Then fate came along in the guise of ...
2 poems by Liana Sakelliou Translated by Don Schofield
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Five poems from
The Adults by Tove Ditlevsen
Original title: De Voksne Ⓒ 1969
Translated from the Danish
by Cynthia Graae and Michael Favala Goldman
with permission of Gyldendal ...
5 Poems Translated by Cynthia Graae and Michael Favala Goldman
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the sky,
cast to the four winds, doesn’t resemble
itself.
this is the margin
we are drawn into.
the rapture of birds:
to their weightlessness; raptors —
the ...
2 Poems by Anna Glazova Translated by Alex Niemi
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Tender Acts
I
I’d like to feel your cool hand
against my burning forehead. Like this the dew
falls on exhausted rose bushes.
Like this the moon blossoms in the ...
Poems by Maria Luisa Spaziani Translated by Vincent Frontero
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To Mokattam at Dawn*
You bathe your rocky ornaments in mists,
.......................let roselight bleed into your cracks.
The Star slowly mounts: his light drenches ...
3 Poems by May Ziadeh translated by Rose DeMaris
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Pasillos
Iré por los pasillos
haciendo caso omiso
de los charcos transparentes,
de las eléctricas guiñadas,
de los derruidos calefactores.
Cada puerta esconde un ...
4 Poems by Miguel Avero Translated by Jona Colson
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Cities after misfortune
when silence inundates
light before and after misfortune
cities with the wind in your hair
because you love to walk over bridges
feeling deeply the torrent’s ...
2 Poems from Lointaines by Nicole Brossard Translated by: Sylvain Gallais and Cynthia Hogue
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