"howling in a place"
Celan, Dickinson, Nguyễn-Hoàng, Menashe, Valentine
Paul Celan to Ingeborg Bachmann, October 30, 1951:
Emily Dickinson:
The Face we / choose to miss - / Be it but for / a Day / As absent as / a Hundred / Years, / When it has rode / away -
Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng (tr. from Vietnamese by Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng):
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