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For Adam
In that aftertime
I wasn't writing. I never wrote,
I didn't know what the aftertime was for.
I felt little, collected nothing.
I talked to myself, but it was boring.
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 Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Arts & Sciences, Poetry & Poets, Relationships
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