C. Dale Young's Blog, page 19

April 7, 2017

“The End and the Beginning” by Wisława Szymborska (translated by Joanna Trzeciak)

After every warsomeone has to clean up.Things won’tstraighten themselves up, after all.Someone has...
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Published on April 07, 2017 07:49

April 6, 2017

“The Tourist from Syracuse”
by Donald Justice

One of those men who can be a car salesman or a tourist from Syracuse or a hired assassin.     —JOHN...
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Published on April 06, 2017 05:53

April 5, 2017

El Otro “The Other” by Rosario Castellanos

Why say the names of gods, stars,
spray from an invisible ocean
or pollen from the farthest...
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Published on April 05, 2017 05:54

April 4, 2017

日暮  “Sunset” by Du Fu

牛羊下来久
各己闭柴门
风月自清夜
江山非故园
石泉流暗壁
草露滴秋根
头白灯明里
何须花烬繁 The cows and sheep are moving slowly down,
Each...
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Published on April 04, 2017 05:58

April 3, 2017

“Salomé” 
by Ai

I scissor the stem of the red carnation and set it in a bowl of water. It floats the way your head...
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Published on April 03, 2017 05:50

April 2, 2017

“Those Winter Sundays”
by Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked...
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Published on April 02, 2017 08:03

April 1, 2017

“The Feast of Stephen”
by Anthony Hecht

I The coltish horseplay of the locker room, Moist with the steam of the tiled shower stalls,   With...
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Published on April 01, 2017 11:09

March 17, 2017

Midsummer

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The jet bores like a silverfish through volumes of cloud – clouds that will keep no...
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Published on March 17, 2017 11:05

March 15, 2017