Correspondences in the Air: International Poetry

Nonfiction by Ilya Kaminsky

Correspondences in the Air: On The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry

Octavio Paz once wrote that the modern poet “extracts his visions from within himself.”

Poetry by Roberto Bolaño

from “Tales of the Autumn in Gerona”

A woman—I should say a stranger—who caresses you, jokes with you

Translated from Spanish by Erica Mena

Poetry by Tomaž Šalamun

From the Figure 6 Into Ships

You destroyed all letters. You burned the heavenly garden.

Translated from Slovene by Thomas Kane and Tomaž Šalamun

Poetry by Tomaž Šalamun

Largo di Vitoria

Out of milk, out of strong skin jumps the big brother. When the river flows, the berth sleeps. There’s the block behind me.

Translated from Slovene by Michael Thomas Taren

Poetry by Tomaž Šalamun

Movements

You went to heaven, Sir, forgetting your legs. Should we bury them?

Translated from Slovene by Thomas Kane and Tomaž Šalamun

Poetry by Sergio Chejfec

Roosters and Bones

If when night falls in the kitchen Someone leans over

Translated from Spanish by Elizabeth Polli

Poetry by Jazra Khaleed

Black Lips

Listen You who chew on my solitude

Translated from Greek by Peter Constantine

Poetry by Luis García Montero

Worth It (A Thursday Telephonically)

Around ten I call you to say I have ten calls,

Translated from Spanish by Katie King

Poetry by Francesc Parcerisas

Then

Then with her hands she’d crown her son’s head,

Translated from Catalan by Cyrus Cassells

Poetry by Francesc Parcerisas

Shave

Observe yourself in the mirror, unchanged yet strange,

Translated from Catalan by Cyrus Cassells

Poetry by Yiannis Moundelas

Call Me at Home, Flambé

darling, when it comes to strawberries you’re like me

Translated from Greek by Sarah Katherine McCann

Poetry by Yiannis Moundelas

Day, A

gulls woke me and the sun

Translated from Greek by Sarah Katherine McCann

Poetry by Yiannis Moundelas

Hermes In Retrogression

With fingers—fingertips and edge of nail— he plots fires with tongues of snakes,

Translated from Greek by Peter Constantine

Poetry by Charles Ducal

Let Us Talk

First, we will bury you in the sand, with your head free to speak about mutual understanding, about peace;   first, we will make your field our own, station soldiers between mine

Translated from Dutch by Dustin Benner

Poetry by Mercedes Roffé

Situation: To Cast Off A Malady

invite people over. invite everyone. to a feast. a big feast. and if the sick one doesn't want to get out of bed, that’s fine, leave him there.

Translated from Spanish by Margaret Carson

Poetry by Nikos Violaris

Night Does Not Fall

Night does not fall nor does it come

Translated from Greek by Peter Constantine

Poetry by Richard Wagner

Lockjaw

I walk toward the mill To meet my quiet father

Translated from German by Victor Pambuccian

Poetry by Nikos Violaris

Half Sleep Half Death

Half sleep half death. My hands in springtime

Translated from Greek by Peter Constantine

Poetry by Nyk de Vries

Room

In that town there was a room I kept circling.

Translated from Dutch by David Colmer

Poetry by Alta Ifland

Bilingual Poem avec Clichés

Danse avec moi baby under the stormy sky

Translated from French by Alta Ifland