Tagged: “Marilyn Hacker”
Poem of the Week: “Durée d’Octobre / In October” by Claire Malroux
October its brilliance
In its arms
the condemned leaves
the obsession
with dying beautifully
Poem of the Week: “Morte la nuit / When night has died” by Claire Malroux
Today we’ve selected a poem by French poet and translator Claire Malroux, alongside the translation by Marilyn Hacker. As Hacker points out in the preface to this volume, these poems are “on the boundary” in many ways. “Perhaps one crucial boundary, sacrosanct and taboo, on which they stand,” she continues, “is that between languages, and their…
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