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Lao-tzu (translated from the Chinese by Red Pine)
existence makes a thing useful
but nonexistence makes it work
book
Copper Canyon
Feature Date
- July 4, 2022
Series
- Translation, What Sparks Poetry
Selected By
Tomaž Šalamun (translated from the Slovene by Matthew Moore)
The ostrich rocks the boat. He cuts
the ribbon. You unglue from...
book
Black Ocean
Feature Date
- July 3, 2022
Series
- Translation
Selected By
Forough Farrokhzad (translated from the Persian by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.)
A window for seeing
A window for hearing
A window like a well...
book
New Directions
Feature Date
- July 2, 2022
Series
- Translation
Selected By
Jana Prikryl
Out of the sheath dress
gently hopping, sparrow in the lot below
in the great complacency of summer...
book
W. W. Norton & Company
Feature Date
- July 1, 2022
Series
Selected By
Boris Dralyuk
For those two minutes, she’ll make you believe:
Somewhere there’s music. It’s where you are.
book
Paul Dry Books
Feature Date
- June 30, 2022
Series
Selected By
Jay Hopler
jay hopler was born the mint-condition-in-original-packaging-
action-figure-w/-kill-piggy-death-grip (collector’s edition)
book
McSweeney's
Feature Date
- June 29, 2022
Series
Selected By
Yu Xiuhua (translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain)
—when I flick a speck of cigarette ash, another has arisen I love someone to death Another is in my belly Rain sounds different in different places
book
Astra House
Feature Date
- June 28, 2022
Series
- Translation
Selected By
Threa Almontaser
As designated translator, I taste saffron, gold coins,
a slight burning. Since I’ve returned, there has been less
of me in English. Though return always meant measuring
the earth’s door, tongue ozoned and still learning
book
Graywolf Press
Feature Date
- June 27, 2022
Series
- What Sparks Poetry
Selected By
Chelsea B. DesAutels
Above the prairies now plowed
to farmland a wake of buzzards circles
something dead in the field.
journal
The Missouri Review
Feature Date
- June 26, 2022
Series
Selected By
Tony Hoagland
Because it is all right to be in a bad mood there,
slouching along through the underground garage...
book
Graywolf Press
Feature Date
- June 25, 2022
