An Attempt at Jealousy
Original by Marina Tsvetaeva Translated, from the Russian, by Aster Fialla & Lev Nikulin How could you live with someone new? Easily, huh? One row and – gone! Like a shore that shrinks from view How quick the memory sailed …
Category: Poetry
Pathology of Exile
Original by Paula Cucurella Translated, from the Spanish, by Alaric López Among my symptoms: the congenital need to be misunderstood worsens the tendency to lose the thread. But between you and me, América, we’ve come to master the art of …
Two Poems
Originals & Translations by Alyn Mare & Macs Chávez dando la patita / arivaca, 2020 curve paw in trust shaking yes i hold my own hand, will u hold mine too we hold it together against crushing tedium, hugging …
Ligia
Original by Rosabetty Muñoz Translated, from the Spanish, by Gavia Boyden It’s about plotting the map, but it overflows. Loved ones are left out. The plain, in its entirety, is stingy; the mountain range a blurred grey line. This …
from How Many Names
Original by Henri Meschonnic Translated, from the French, by Don Boes and Gabriella Bedetti from Combien de noms (How Many Names) Improviste, 1999 between each word a desert inside the words the desert and with each letter I am …
“The Condition of the Verses”
Original by Maria Teresa Horta Translated, from the Portuguese, by Edite Cunhā and M.B. McLatchey I am of the condition of the verses with eagerness rescued I have a pact with the angels I recognize the trace of light …
“The Albatross”
Original by Charles Baudelaire Translated, from the French, by Will Cordeiro Often, just for kicks, bored sailors reach for that vast bird, the albatross, which glides above them on lethargic winds as each old ketch is drifting the abyss …
sunflowers (and two other poems)
Original by Michael Garcia Spring Translated, from the English to the Portuguese, by Maria João Marques sunflowers it’s nearly impossible to look at a sunflower and not think of van Gogh a bullet-shaped bee shoots past and my mind takes …
About Death
Original by Iulia Militaru Translated, from the Romanian, by Claudia Serea – Iulia Militaru is the editor-in-chief of frACTalia Press and the InterRe:ACT magazine. After a few children’s books and her study Metaphoric, Metonimic: A Typology of Poetry, her …
Epigraph (and two other poems)
Original by Adem Garić Translated, from the Bosnian, by Mario Frömml Epigraph In the mornings I call my mother. Or in the afternoons, on my way back from the mosque; the scent of blossoms rushes through a crack in …