Liliane Giraudon

Love is Colder Than the Lake

Translated from the French by Sarah Riggs

Liliane Giraudon

Sarah Riggs

L’amour est plus froid que le lac

consigner les coïncidences

les angles les sons des étoiles

mortes encore visibles

nous par exemple

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Liliane Giraudon

Love is Colder Than the Lake

Translated from the French by Sarah Riggs

Three pebbles

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Jerome Rothenberg and Ariel Resnikoff

'A Poem Beginning with Two Lines by Likht' (in English and Yiddish)

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