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Oct 3

PEN Translation Fund: Joshua Daniel Edwin, Excerpts from Dagmara Kraus’s gloomerang

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October 3, 2012 | 

Joshua Daniel Edwin is the recipient of a 2012 PEN Translation Fund fellowship for his translation of Dagmara Kraus’s poetry collection, gloomerang.


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guns in under-burn, time watched her slash sleek dreams.
time leeched her guns · under dreams was knit: slash, burn.

she: sugar bell, sheets in rain. mums drawn under the deck.
ere darker guns bunch, the saltless minders whine. unarmed,

i watch her run under sleet—guns, ass and brims held meek.
drams leeched her time. snug under ashen blurs was knit:

un-wince, mr. denier. gun at arms, she held the ark. un-bless’d.
rain hangs · under trees, she kills. dew. mud. machete burns.

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