“You can do this some of your life,” José says, “but not all. It’s too hard for how little you make.”

⨬ “Game Over,” from Abraham Jiménez Enoa’s THE HIDDEN ISLAND, translated by Lily Meyer ⨬

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Onehundredandeightythousandfourhundredandone men live in Iceland
and she’s in love with all of them

∾ Two poems by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir, translated from Icelandic by Rachel Britton ∾

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They return at night with the same maxim:
I spoke with the myths, but the myths wouldn’t have me.

▣ From bruno darío’s LANTANA OR, THE INDISSOLUBLE EXHALATION, translated by @Kit Schluter ▣

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Searching for opposing centers
we will change the body entirely
—fullness is sealed in symbols.

⌱ Three poems from Theory of the Voice and Dream by Liliana Ponce, translated by @immanentfields.bsky.social ! ⌱

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Under the shelter of my heart
he is as plain and severe as his task

⊱ From Issue 10, three poems by Najlaa Eltom, translated from Arabic by Mayada Ibrahim (@mayadamayadamay.bsky.social) ⊱

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The man got back home
by breaking the glass with his elbow.
He tidied the tables made a coffee
for the women asleep in the corner.

⁑ Five poems by Carmen Gallo, translated from Italian by Livia Franchini (@twoseriousladies.bsky.social) ⁑

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I hid in a shed by the lake
near Wlodava
sometimes they gave me some bread

⸱ Six poems by @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social, translated from the Polish by Peter Constantine ⸱

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My head on your left shoulder
is valence zero; a grey metallic loneliness.
Freckles, spots of rust . . .

⚹ From Issue 3, a poem by Luljeta Lleshanaku, translated from the Albanian by Henry Israeli & Shpresa Qatipi ⚹

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“'I hate you,' she said to a man whose only crime was not loving her. 'I hate you,' she said in a rush.“

⊹ “The Buffalo,” from Clarice Lispector’s COVERT JOY, translated by Katrina Dodson ⊹

COVERT JOY is out this week from New Directions (@ndbooks.bsky.social)!

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