AL YOUNG
Two Poems
Just tell me who the hell am I?
What powers did I, do I hold?
All posts tagged: translation
AL YOUNG
AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER
Two Poems
We are puppets, all parts of us
connected by strings, by loose wishes
GENNY LIM
Two Poems
Wind and darkness, like the cuckoo
Who returns from far off lands
MICHAEL WARR
Two Poems
I hear them singing a new song.
They hear each other sing . . .
Dead Poets Love Us Back: On Polina Barskova’s Air Raid
The voices to which Barskova has turned her obsessive, greedy, undeceived attention in Air Raid are not easy voices to listen to, but they are voices she is rescuing even as her poetry . . . is rescuing her, line by line.
“No country but our century”: Wong May, Poet of Lostness
“No matter how far you stray, your origin beckons you.”
SUN TZU-PING
from You Are Not There
translated by Nicholas Wong
“What’re they selling there?”
“What we already have.”
Interview// Invisibility is a Form of Presence: A Conversation with Fiona Sze-Lorrain:
On translating Green Mountain by Chinese Poet Yang Jian
ANA GUADALUPE
A Rat
translated by Ananda Lima
when it pierces my skin
I tremble without panic
NELLY SACHS
from Flight and Metamorphosis
translated by Joshua Weiner with Linda B. Parshall
In fear, a seed sprouts
quick on a human finger.