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By Carlie Hoffman

On a years-long endeavor to translate Ausländer’s poems for the first essential selection to be published in the United States.

Prose from Poetry Magazine

By Hüseyin Alhas & Ulaş Özgün

Onur’s verses are so intricately and sophisticatedly woven that their interpretation can yield entirely different meanings depending on the reader’s perspective. 

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By Rose Ausländer
Our ship without flag belongs to no country never arrives water citizens we travel day and night spy...
Poem
By Rüştü Onur
Bir ağaç ve meyva,Ve bu altın dudakMercan kadehlerde -kahkaha ...Bir step şarkısı -bir daha.Sükûtun ...

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By Peter O’Leary

One of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.

"And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor – And this, and so much more? --"