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Rainer Maria Rilke (translated from the German by Edward Snow)
I can see that the storms are coming
by the trees, which out of stale lukewarm days
beat against my anxious windows,
and I can hear the distances say things
book
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Feature Date
- February 17, 2020
Series
- Translation, What Sparks Poetry
Selected By
Jeff Kass
Sent down a student clearly unprepared
to schlep seven pizzas (including one gluten-free)
upstairs to the classroom, so I did it for him, an extra
ten minutes of my time while another customer’s
delivery camped in the car, and I don’t know what
kind of class it was, possibly marketing, something
in the how-to-make-money-by-lying-to-people genre.
book
Wayne State Press
Feature Date
- February 16, 2020
Series
Selected By
Anthony Anaxagorou
so gently
have the children
been washed
& scented
with lavender.
against their will.
journal
The Adroit Journal
Feature Date
- February 15, 2020
Series
Selected By
book
Wave Books
Feature Date
- February 14, 2020
Series
Selected By
Hasan Alizadeh (translated from the Persian by Rebecca Ruth Gould & Kayvan Tahmasebian)
Nights when you fall in love with her again,
when the seabird is gone.
A chair,
unpleasantly the colour of bones...
journal
West Branch
Feature Date
- February 13, 2020
Series
- Translation
Selected By
book
Four Way Books
Feature Date
- February 12, 2020
Series
- Editor's Choice
Selected By
- Eric Pankey
Rick Barot
I have this notion that if you live long enough,
there are three or four great stories that you will have in your life.
book
Milkweed Editions
Feature Date
- February 11, 2020
Series
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Tristan Tzara (translated from the French by Mary Ann Caws)
I am a horse I am a river
I go on clumsily nevertheless I live
book
Black Widow Press
Feature Date
- February 10, 2020
Series
- Translation, What Sparks Poetry
Selected By
Valencia Robin
...Was Milwaukee even Milwaukee? Is the Lincoln Park Bridge
still there, do boys like Danny still climb over the rail,
hug their bony knees to their narrow chests and plop into the river
as if there's no way his parents could lose two children?
book
Persea Books
Feature Date
- February 9, 2020
Series
Selected By
Sharon Olds
...We passed the room
where she had breathed her last breath into
my mouth, I could not save it, I do not
know where it is—
book
Penguin Random House
Feature Date
- February 8, 2020
