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The Years
Nothing required an account of me
And still I didn't give one.
I might have been a virtual casualty,
A late victim of the Millennium Bug.
No spontaneity, no insubordination,
Not even any spare capacity.
Source: Poetry (June 2008).
Biography
Michael Hofmann’s annotated translation of Joseph Roth’s letters was just published by W.W. Norton; Impromptus, his Gottfried Benn translations, is expected later this year from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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SUBJECT Arts & Sciences, Humor & Satire, Social Commentaries
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