Remembering Las Vegas / Erinnerung An Las Vegas
“high above the theatre hung/ the rusting colt of the moon in its holster.” By Jan Wagner, translated from German by Iain Galbraith.
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Turkish Bath / Türkisches Bad
By Durs Grünbein, translated from German by Karen Leeder.
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Island Without Sirens / Insel Ohne Sirenen
“And the silence stretched for kilometres,/ Making one think of test-sites, dead craters,/ The acoustics of bombed-out opera houses…” By Durs Grünbein, translated from German by Karen Leeder.
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Working Hands / Zawal-e-Istihal
“…They have served well. / Even though knuckles are pummeled, nails ridged/ like limpet shells. These hands have never/ been used to beg…” Poem of the Week (October 6), by Kishwar Naheed, in an English version by Vicki Husband.
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for zainab
“today marks an entire year of living with this half-finished poem…” Weekend Poem, by Hira A.
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Blue Shirt
“you do not question the disappearance of your hands. / your hands are murals. silver buttons. leaven…” Poem of the Week (September 29), by Triin Paja.
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Solving the Banking Crisis
“…Flipper’s flippering his tail so he’s walking/ on water and clicking his teeth in a grin/ at the handsomely arrived Police Patrol boat…” Weekend Poem, by Stuart Pickford.
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Borders: a suite
“…a beach boat’s carcass/ rests among the reeds/ holding a few breaths…” Poem of the Week (22 September), by Daniel Voskoboynik.
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Deeply
“In the middle of the night I woke/ To no more voices no more laughter/ Only sky lanterns…” Weekend poem, by Manuel Bandeira. Translated from Portuguese by the 2015 City University Literary Translation Summer School.
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Interstice
“We did not know/ That power does not grow/ From the barrel of a clenched fist…” Poem of the Week (September 15), by George Goddard.
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