An Ordinary Youth
Madeleine Adams talks to translator Michael Lipkin about An Ordinary Youth by Walter Kempowski
Mona Shen, Turning Light into Dust, 2018, courtesy of the artist.
wake drenched in drool
A poem by Ror Wolf, translated from German by Hunter Bolin
Meret Oppenheim, X-ray of My Skull, 1964. Collection SFMOMA.
The results are not long in coming
Three poems from The Loveliest Vowel Empties by Meret Oppenheim, translated from German by Kathleen Heil
Max Klinger, Adam from Eva und die Zukunft (Rad.-Werk III), 1898, public domain.
my lips, and all you’d loved them for
Three poems by Lou Andreas-Salomé, translated by Sofija Popovska
Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, The Hymn, 1904.
an audible disturbance in the transmission field
Three poems by Ulrike Almut Sandig, translated by Karen Leeder
a bright disc without contour in the haze of summer night.
Three poems by Joachim Sartorius translated by Pauline Fan
Out of the halls of books Appear the butchers.
A new translation of Bertolt Brecht’s “1940,” by J.D. Knight
And her answer: What does that mean what do you mean by “rain”?
Five poems by Christoph Meckel, translated by Roy Scheele