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Criss-Cross & Other Poemsβ€” Bhaskar Chakraborty

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY OWSHNIK GHOSH Image Used For Representation   CRISS-CROSS Deadly criss-cross marks of red inkover the black ink.The matter is insignificant.Really insignificant,Unless you remembera black boystained with…...

Somniumβ€” Giuliana Pala

TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY PATRICK WILLIAMSON     I. SOMNIUMΒ  It blew like the roar of open horns that you only drink in on the day of madness whenΒ  you're allowed to take out the face…...
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Hesitationβ€” Iva Damjanovski

TRANSLATED FROM THE MACEDONIAN BY ZORAN ANCHEVSKI Image Used For Representation   HESITATION All sunsare red and roundedbefore rising.Just as all headsof all matchsticksbefore burning. So I’m puzzled at times:do I…...

Neene and other poemsβ€” Abdoul Ali War

  WHERE AM I FROM?   Where am I from? From what distant land Seed thrown to the wind Sown by whom Why On this land where we toil so?   Will I return to these…...
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A Dream Talk & Other Poemsβ€” Usham Rojio

TRANSLATED FROM THE MANIPURI BY THE POET Image Used for Representation Β  A DREAM -TALK Thinking of writing a poemI went to the keithel of wordsincessantly searching for new wordsin the market, keithel,…...
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Two Hindi Poemsβ€” Gagan Gill

TRANSLATED FROM THE HINDI BY MOULINATH GOSWAMIΒ      ONLY A LITTLE HOPE IS NEEDED   Just like sun raysshimmering on the soil Just like the tasteof moist rock in water Like the restlessness in fishon wet…...

Insomnia and Other Poemsβ€” Dipanwita Sarkar

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY MANDAKRANTA SEN     We   Meat and liquor and throwing at one another dirt This, also is, a playful love Β Anything like a poet or weapon- I approach them as if…...
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Strawberries & Other Poemsβ€” Timba Bema

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY PATRICK WILLIAMSON Image used for Representation   STRAWBERRIES it's 3am, the sky is torn by lightning, the clouds are pouring down, my old-fashioned pain is sharp, bleeding, and…...
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Ab Initio and Other Poems— Dejan Aleksić

TRANSLATED FROM THE SERBIAN BYΒ MARIJA BERGAM PELLICANI   Image used for Representation   Ab initio Many doors inside me Squeak and slam in the wind So old and senile It doesnΒ΄t even remember…...