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On Translating Rose Ausländer

By Carlie Hoffman

On a years-long endeavor to translate Ausländer’s poems for the first essential selection to be published in the United States.

Prose from Poetry Magazine

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On Translating Rüştü Onur

By Hüseyin Alhas & Ulaş Özgün

Onur’s verses are so intricately and sophisticatedly woven that their interpretation can yield entirely different meanings depending on the reader’s perspective. 

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p1Ein Tag im Exil

By Rose Ausländer
Ein Tag im Exil
Haus ohne Türen und Fenster

Auf weißer Tafel
mit Kohle verzeichnet
die Zeit

Im Kasten
die sterblichen Masken
Adam
Abraham
Ahasver
Wer kennt alle Namen

Ein Tag im Exil
wo die Stunden sich bücken
um aus dem Keller
ins Zimmer zu kommen

Schatten versammelt
um’s Öllicht im ewigen Lämpchen
erzählen ihre Geschichten…
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T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

By Peter O’Leary

One of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.

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"And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor – And this, and so much more? --"

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