the mule by Adelaide Ivánova
16th May
This week’s poem is ‘the mule’ by Brazilian journalist, poet & activist Adelaide Ivánova, translated from the Portuguese by poet Rachel Long & critic and Editor Francisco Vilhena
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the mule
put a silence over it,
stilled with poison, great
– Paul Celan, translated by Michael Hamburgermeasures the worth of her effort<…Continue reading the English translation
a mula
um silêncio amamentado com veneno
um silêncio imenso
– Paul Celan, tradução de Flávio R. Kothemede o valor de seu empenhoe afirmações tendocomo medida o peso que…Continue reading in Portuguese
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