Poetry

Kaido Racers and Other Poems— Dumitru Fanfarov

TRANSLATED FROM THE ROMANIAN BY THE AUTHOR     Nervous Tics he was curious about how those like him wrote their versesan emotional commotion an anomaly in behaviorsomething incomprehensible for those who see poetry as anintellectual producthe…...
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Confession & Other Poems— Saswati Sanyal

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY OWSHNIK GHOSH Image Used For Representation   Confession   I was in search of it.It's smell brought me here.... The stairs are coiled like a snake.The lamp had…...
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Preparatory & Other Poems— Robert Șerban

TRANSLATED FROM THE ROMANIAN BY LIDIA VIANU AND ANNE STEWART Image Used For Representation  Preparatory I pluck wordsout of the poemas stubbornly asmy grandfather used his axeto shave slivers of woodfrom a poletill…...

Golden Moments and Other Poems— Nasera Sharma

TRANSLATED FROM THE HINDI BY MOULINATH GOSWAMI Whether I Am a Part of ItWhether I am a part of it or notI am nevertheless an eyewitness of this piece of time!Years back, the pregnant young womanslumped…...

Solitary Atlas And Other Poems— Şükrü Erbaş

TRANSLATED FROM THE TUKISH BY NEIL P. DOHERTY AND GÖKÇENUR Ç.   Solitary Atlas Silence. Silence. Silence. Those hours when god becomes manThose hours when the leaves mouth prayersThose hours when dreams touch the worldThose…...

Bokultora and Other Poems— Maitrayee Patar

TRANSLATED FROM THE ASSAMESE BY DARADI PATAR AND THE POET     Bokultora(translated into English by the poet) Bokultora, come rest by me Even from before I knew you existed,A sky of lines was composed on my…...
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Skopje— Michele Porsia

TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY BRENDA PORSTER Image Used for Representation  - This is my bodymade of roads and words, of houses and periodsthis is the body of the text, the gangrenous metonymy…...

Regarding Love and Other Poems— Cahit Zarifoğlu

TRANSLATED FROM THE TURKISH BY NEİL P. DOHERTY   Translations dedicated to Paulette C Turcotte   Poem of the Blue Sacred Child Your hands rose right up to the centre of the skyIn the fieldHis…...
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Tenderness & Other Poems— Rosana Crispim Da Costa

TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY BRENDA PORSTER Image Used For Representation   TENDERNESS I am waitingfor a sign from the seato discover where I’ll end upPerhaps, a safe harborOr an island…...