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The Potato Eaters

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Farhad Pirbal (trans. Jiyar Homer and Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse)

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Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel

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Yoko Tawada (trans. Susan Bernofsky)

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