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At the Gate of Exile: Focus on Archives

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to accidentally grab onto the hair of a stranger | how the greasy scalp slides under the fingernails

Anna T. Szabó

From: Disgust

Translated from Hungarian by Ági Bori

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In the end, all that’s left of the leaf | is just enough for the caterpillar to stand on.

István Vörös

From: The Colourful Caterpillar

Translated from Hungarian by Adam Piette and Ágnes Lehóczky

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my mother’s daydream dreamed of mine | for a god that sends no messengers

Ni Made Purnama Sari

From: Armenia

Translated from Indonesian by Norman Erikson Pasaribu

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He became a desk, and it began to rain. He listened intently to the rain. There was no other choice.

Yoo Heekyung

From: Story—All of us victims of the especial shape we come in

Translated from Korean by Stine An

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October 12th | Online | With Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Ni Made Purnama Sari, Yoo Heekyung & Stine An

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Counter-Memory

Mayada Ibrahim writes on the fourth decade of Modern Poetry in Translation: 1995-2005

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