Closeness

In this Issue:

Letter From The Editor

• food poems

  Rosmarie Waldrop translates from the German. Original by Ferdinand Schmatz.

• From Invisible (Dreaming Up a Mom)

  Elitza Kotzeva translates from the Bulgarian. Original by Nataliya Deleva/Наталия Делева.

• Five Poems from As One Would Chisel Diamonds

  Marguerite Feitlowitz translates from the French. Original by Liliane Atlan.

• From Stendhal

  Damion Searls translates from the German. Original by Robert Walser.

• Four Poems by Severo Sarduy

  David Francis translates from the Spanish. Original by Severo Sarduy.

• Kilometer Zero

  Johanna Hanink translates from the Greek. Original by Konstantinos Poulis.

• Two Poems by Chung Kwok Keung

  May Huang translates from the Chinese. Original by Chung Kwok Keung/鍾國強.

• Two Poems by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli

  Robert Eric Shoemaker translates from the Italian. Original by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli.

• From Words and Colors

  Paul Cunningham translates from the Swedish. Original by Helena Österlund.

• Three Poems by Francisco Layna Ranz

  JP Allen translates from the Spanish. Original by Francisco Layna Ranz.

• Two Poems by Carl-Christian Elze

  Caroline Wilcox Reul translates from the German. Original by Carl-Christian Elze.

• Sovereign Loves

  Kanya Kanchana translates from the Maṇipravāḷam. Original by Svāti Tirunāḷ.

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Other issues

• Closeness

  Table of Contents

• Invitation

  Spring ’18

  Table of Contents

• Traces

  Fall ’17

  Table of Contents

• cæ || sura

  Spring ’17

  Table of Contents

• Interstices

  Fall ’16

  Table of Contents

• Undercurrents

  Spring ’16

  Table of Contents

• Hysterium

  Fall ’15

  Table of Contents

• Fledglings

  Spring ’15

  Table of Contents

• Estranged

  Fall ’14

  Table of Contents

• Topographies

  Spring ’14

  Table of Contents

• Migration

  Spring ’13

  Table of Contents