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Shepherds of Europe!
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They’d put me on a float. It was midnight. A tractor hauled me and some twenty-five villagers into the woods. We were going to cut down a tree. I’d had…
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Book | « Nothing fills the chest so completely as a last breath »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Lieke Marsman, who was the former Dutch Poet Laureate, died in early June of this year, aged 35.
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When the beans won’t cook
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I’m futzing around the kitchen, heat-wave grumpy. I’m cooking white beans with tomatoes for dinner; I soaked the dried beans overnight, but they are a little too old, too long…
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The pain-laden rhyme
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An excerpt from a new biography on the life and poetry of Paul Celan.
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So, kill him [at Aulide]This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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here he is in his bed, so scared he can’t move
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The Barren Nothing-PlaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On growing up in the creases of bilingual versions of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
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The Mothers GrimmThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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What ties Gretel to her witch? Louise Glück’s poem Gretel in Darkness provides answers.
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Two palindromesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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→ Setting of the Sun at West Mountain / Puffing & panting ←→ Worm-eaten Rimbaud / Always knowing whom ←
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No money off a dead woman’s body (& other poems)This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« I like my tyrants like I like my heroes. That is, crushed by a giant chandelier. »
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→ → Pursuing / you lead me to come to the future.← ← coming to the future, I lead you / demanding.
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Sugar MouseThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A poem, plus a note on tongue-like mice and the translation of mice-like tongues.