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“Scissors” by Omama Zaier, translated by @AliZnaidi from @alchemyjournal Issue 25. poems.com/poem/scissors/
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Today's Featured Poem:
"Scissors" by Omama Zaier, translated by @AliZnaidi from @alchemyjournal Issue 25
Read here:
poems.com/poem/scissors/
From "To put straight the long-lingering sunshine"
An original auto-translation by Fiona Martinez
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Send us your translations! We are open for submissions: alchemy.ucsd.edu/submissions…
"I sidestep the need for certainty, or words of explanation. Instead, I trust that the ambiguity inherent in the poet’s word choice will help readers feel the complex dialectic in these poems."
- Xuelan Su on translating A Hua from the Chinese.
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"I sidestep the need for certainty, or words of explanation. Instead, I trust that the ambiguity inherent in the poet’s word choice will help readers feel the complex dialectic in these poems."
- Xuelan Su on translating A Hua from the Chinese.
alchemy.ucsd.edu/two-poems-2…
From Ali Znaidi's translation of Omama Zaier's poem.
You can read both in full here: alchemy.ucsd.edu/scissors/
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"there are a few things I don’t think I’d be skilled in /
yet I’d know how to sleep in a hotel, nights in a row, /
alone, curled among bedsheets"
From Claudia Serea's translation of Svetlana Cârstean's Romanian poetry. alchemy.ucsd.edu
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we are open for translation and visual art submissions. send us your work by September 30!
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We are happy to announce Alchemy's latest issue, which can be found here: alchemy.ucsd.edu/
Image by Gian Cruz and Gisela Marcelang
"Of its total length, approximately one third of the US-Mexico border is fenced. / This barrier gets fortified not only physically, but also by way of taking thousands of photos of it. By imagining it."
from "CBP’s broken photostream" by Eliseo Ortiz
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"or is it that through your pale clay
something gleams there
beyond the human?"
from Antonia Pozzi's "Lamp" translated, from the Italian, by Amy Newman
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"junam / جونم / my life [when someone calls me i reply with junam]"
"[ to shake off and free the dust from a cloth / resistance / uprising / liberation / to free palestine..."
from "traduttore, traditore," an original work by Deniz Ibrahimzade
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"He lightly touches the shrine with his right hand as he enters, sensing the pinewood-saturated air, heavy with the musk and frankincense emanating..."
from Ahmed Abu Hazem's "Scattered Spectra" translated by @EssamJassim
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"Dunya was watching the Nile. It was bright blue in the sun, and it was rippling and sparkling.
'It’s like holy water,' she said."
from "Nile Like Holy Water" by @reemhtasyakan
a creative translation of Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”
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