from My Soul Has No Corners
poetry by Souad Labbize, translated by Susanna Lang My soul has no corners when I return with an armload of new grief I can’t find...
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Susanna Lang
- Jan 15
- 1 min
The World With Its Relentless Pull
We shed our days, the shiny mornings when we drank espresso at a sidewalk table painted blue while parents walked their children and...
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Susanna Lang
- Aug 20, 2020
- 1 min
Unnamed Road
Jungjin Lee Not only the road wanders without a name. This shrouded woman climbing the steps beside the road and the man who, arms...
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Susanna Lang
- Jul 1, 2019
- 1 min
Breakage
Once it’s been broken, the body holds the memory of falling as you would hold a fragile goblet that belonged to your great grandmother,...
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Susanna Lang
- Jun 28, 2019
- 1 min
What We Call It
Where the road crosses Peavine Creek, a different vine wreathes the railing with small white flowers, Confederate jasmine—not jasmine at...
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Susanna Lang
- Jun 27, 2019
- 1 min
Traveler
Striding Horned Figure (Mesopotamia, ca. 3000 B.C.) You, hawk- shouldered and silent, you lead the way between this world and another....
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Susanna Lang
- Jun 26, 2019
- 1 min
Kitchen, Donetsk
Photograph by Sergei Ilnitsky, with this note: Damaged goods lie in a damaged kitchen in downtown Donetsk, Ukraine, 26 August 2014....
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Susanna Lang
- Jun 21, 2019
- 1 min
I, Beast
child’s drawing on birch-bark, ca. 1260 I, beast, carry the blind moon on my back, copper coin with the sheen worn off and the face...
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Susanna Lang
- Jun 19, 2019
- 1 min
Night Letters
I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again. Anna Akhmatova Written on the...
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Susanna Lang
- Jun 18, 2019
- 1 min
Even Now
Even diplomats are required to pay the tax, said the mayor. Shopkeepers have disappeared in full daylight and the daylight disappeared as...
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