EUKOPEAN POETS WAYNE MILLER KEVIN PKUFEK NEW EUROPEAN POETS WITHDRAWN Sal.of,h« material bonofitslXe Library. Digitized by the Internet Archive 2015 in https://archive.org/details/neweuropeanpoetsOOwayn NEW EUROPEAN POETS General Editors WAYNE MILLER and KEVIN PRUFER GraywolfPress SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA Copyright © 2008 byWayne Millerand Kevin Prufer Permission acknowledgments begin on page 385. Publication ofthis volume is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota; and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. Significant support has also been provided by the Bush Foundation; Target; the McKnight Foundation; and other generous contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals. To these organizations and individuals we offerourheartfelt thanks. NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FORTHE ARTS MINNESOTA TARf^FT STATEARTSBOARD IVSfc-I® ALannan Translation Selection Fundingthe translation and publication ofexceptional literaryworks PublishedbyGraywolfPress 2402 UniversityAvenue, Suite 203 Saint Paul, Minnesota 55114 All rights reserved. www.graywolfpress.org Published in the United StatesofAmerica Printed in Canada ISBN 978-1-55597-492-3 246897531 FirstGraywolfPrinting, 2008 LibraryofCongress Control Number: 2007925196 Thegeneral editorswish to thank Mary Byers forherworkon this book. Coverdesign: KimberlyGlyder Design HIM onnD REGIONAL EDITORS CHRISTOPHER BAKKEN .... Cyprus, Greece, Turkey PETER COVING Italy, Switzerland (Italian) CHAD DAVIDSON . Italy, Switzerland (Italian) MICHAEL DUMANIS Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Slovakia, Russia MARELLA FELTRIN-MORRIS Italy, Switzerland (Italian) ROGER GREENWALD Denmark, Norway, Sapmi MARILYN HACKER Belgium (French), Luxembourg, France, Switzerland (French) BRIAN HENRY England, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Wales JOHN ISLES Estonia, Finland (Finnish), Latvia, Lithuania ILYA KAMINSKY Belarus, Russia, Ukraine JASCHA KESSLER Fiungary JOHN KINSELLA England, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Wales RIKA LESSER Finland (Finland-Swedish), Sapmi, Sweden ALEXIS LEVITIN Portugal WAYNE MILLER Albania, Iceland, Kosovo, Malta MURAT NEMET-NEJAT Cyprus, Turkey D. A. POWELL Estonia, Finland (Finnish), Latvia, Lithuania KEVIN PRUFER Iceland, Malta ADAM SORKIN Moldova, Romania J. IGOR STIKS Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia JOVANKA ULJAREVIC Montenegro, Serbia ALISSA VALLES Belgium (Flemish), The Netherlands, Poland, Spain SAM WITT Estonia, Finland (Finnish), Latvia, Lithuania ELIZABETH OEHLKERS WRIGHT .... Austria/Lichtenstein, Germany, Switzerland (German) CONTENTS Introduction xxv ^ PORTUGAL LUIS GARCIA MONTERO H- Poetry 13 ROSA ALICE BRANCO Poetics 13 Mornings on the Ground 3 The Highest Branch 3 Between Yesterdayand JOSE MANUEL DEL PINO YourMouth 4 The Evening 14 The SweetArms ofInspiration 15 ADILIA LOPES Elisabeth Doesn'tWorkHere ANNA AGUILAR-AMAT Anymore 4 Orpheus 16 Relativity 17 JOSE TOLENTINO MENDON^A Calle Principe, 25 5 ROGER WOLFE TheWhite Road 6 Wisdom 18 Stonecrop 6 Words 18 The LastNightofEarth 19 RUI PIRES CABRAL Pohsh Restaurant 7 VIOLETA RANGEL Lost Friends 7 [I prayto heavenyourhouse] 19 ThisWayOut 8 [Night, everynight,] 20 OurTurn 8 [It's trueeverythingyou touch] 20 Cityofthe Missing 9 [Spiderylightscratches thecrystal] 21 H SPAIN KIRMEN URIBE BERNARDO ATXAGA Visit 21 TheTaleofthe Hedgehog 10 Cardiogram 22 Life 10 Loren 22 CHUS PATO PABLO GARCIA CASADO [youcan'tsee the battle because Ford 23 it's faroff, in Eritrea] 11 Father 23 [and nowthepanopticon is a ruin] 12