Odilon Redon, Hallucinations.
the wet words would get naked get cold
A poem by Ali Babachahi, translated from Farsi by Marjan Modarres Sabzevari
Resolute in Privation, 2021.
Pretending to agree with people
A poem by Tove Ditlevsen, translated from Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg
Séraphine Louis, L'arbre de vie, 1928, Musée d'art et d'archéologie de Senlis, France
In the Face of the Latest Events
Six poems by Waly Salomão, translated from Portuguese by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi
Édouard Vuillard, Woman by the Window, 1898.
In those days, I still lived. I hadn’t burned out
Three poems by Yang Xiaobin, translated from Chinese by Canaan Morse
Vincent Van Gogh, Shoes, 1988. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
nothing matters except having clean hands
A poem by Aleksey Porvin, translated from Russian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
The fresco mural Prometheus by José Clemente Orozco in Frary Dining Hall at Pomona College, 1930.
the year 1957 in used clothes
Two poems by Afrizal Malna, translated from Indonesian by Daniel Owen
Peder Balke, The Stormy Sea, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway, c. 1870.
I can’t bury my heart anywhere on this earth
Two poems by Sister Claudia Lee Hae-in, translated from Korean by Esther Kim and Paige Aniyah Morris
Igor Moritz, Redbreast Road North Corner, 2019. Courtesy of the artist
the girl who was smoking
A poem by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from Italian by André Naffis-Sahely