The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes by Lieke Marsman, trans. Sophie Collins
PBS Summer Translation Choice 2019 Friedrich Holderlin love and desire

love and desire

directness

He remembers when ‘dragonflies were as common as sunlight / hovering in their own days’ and recalls ‘a house that had been left to its own silence / for half a century’

Charlotte Eichler

’ said Ezra Pound

The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes by Lieke Marsman, trans. Sophie Collins <br><b>PBS Summer Translation Choice 2019</b> Friedrich Holderlin love and desireIn The Cancer Journals Audre Lorde wrote, I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilise into yet another silence, not to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined. Founded on this same principle, The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes was written in the three months following Dutch writer Lieke Marsmans cancer diagnosis. A series of short poems anchored by an essay that