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[XVII] from Sonnets to Orpheus

Posted in Summer 2024 Tagged with German

Original by Rainer Maria Rilke Adapted, after the German, by Nico Peck The song spire spins itself in time into a branch we climb. Entangled limbs urge rage and release, hunted and slit open, spread earth-bound downtrodden clambered undermost tongue …

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Irrturm

Posted in Summer 2023 Tagged with French, German, Greek, Russian

An original work by Inna Krasnoper Audio of Poems Inna Krasnoper is a poet, artist, and literary translator who was born in Ufa (Bashqortostan) and has lived in Berlin since 2011. She received a BA in “Dance, Context, Choreography” from …

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The Panther

Posted in Winter 2023 Tagged with German

Original by Rainer Maria Rilke Translated, from the German, by Alex Buckman In the Jardin des Plantes, Paris His gaze is from the passing bars so weary That now, within it, nothing more is held. For him there are a …

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Not Your Heidi

Posted in Fiction, Winter 2020 Tagged with German

Original by Ulrike Ulrich Translated, from the German, by Marielle Sutherland This piece was published in 2016, in German, in Viceversa 10, under the title Nicht das Heidi. “You want for nothing, nothing at all. You’re an unbelievably ungrateful little thing, …

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The Book of Hours

Posted in Spring 2013 Tagged with German, Poetry

From the sequence titled “The Book of Pilgrimage” You are what is to come, a great sunrise above the levels of eternity. You are the cock’s cry ending timeless night. The dew, the morning matins, and the maid, The …

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[XVII] from Sonnets to Orpheus

Irrturm

The Panther

Not Your Heidi

The Book of Hours

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