Potential Titles: Martin Sorescu

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Old acacias that suffer from insomnia - Marin Sorescu "Carbon Paper" transl. by Michael Hamburger

That perpetually slides away from me - Marin Sorescu "Carbon Paper" transl. by Michael Hamburger

I write on the face of earthquakes - Marin Sorescu "Creation" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

My words keep slithering away from me - Marin Sorescu "Creation" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

You can sign your name right on cinders - Marin Sorescu "Creation" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

Assessed in buckets of grain - Marin Sorescu "Destiny" transl. by D.J. Enright

Cunning life keeps asking for more - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

Divining the heart of the geyser - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

Dance out a round on the dreamt eye of water - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

Under the tall sky of hope - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

Each one the other's phantom limb - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

All the museums are afraid of me - Marin Sorescu "Paintings" transl. by Gabriela Dragnea

Closed eyes in dark cellars - Marin Sorescu "Paintings" transl. by Gabriela Dragnea

Holding a cheap imitation in my hands - Marin Sorescu "Paintings" transl. by Gabriela Dragnea

Chasms form inside me and fog - Marin Sorescu "Poisons" transl. by Michael Hamburger

It was Tuesday all last year - Marin Sorescu "Question" transl. by Michael Hamburger

I have hidden in a sea shell - Marin Sorescu "The Sea Shell" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Filtering the sea through my fingers - Marin Sorescu "The Sea Shell" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Repelled by millions of sea shells - Marin Sorescu "The Sea Shell" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Shall I tell philosophy's fortune? - Marin Sorescu "Seneca" transl. by Michael Hamburger

The sun that will not go down again - Marin Sorescu "Seneca" transl. by Michael Hamburger

The mountains and the ravines of the soul - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Gave to the clowns a free hand - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Allowed them to turn somersaults - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

And taught King Lear how to wear a crown of straw - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Plastered the whole world with their playbills - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Solemnly, crowned as Nero was - Marin Sorescu "Solemnly" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

Who vowed to give them good care - Marin Sorescu "Thieves" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

Another friend that you could trust with a secret - Marin Sorescu "Thieves" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

Ancient boundary stone on the edge - Marin Sorescu "To the Sea" transl. by Michael Hamburger

And gave to the wind to carry - Marin Sorescu "To the Sea" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Those fields where the dust is sweet - Marin Sorescu "To the Sea" transl. by Michael Hamburger

This wind is troubling me again - Marin Sorescu "To the Sea" transl. by Michael Hamburger


Poet's bio at poetryfoundation.org.


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