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D. Nurkse

D. Nurkse’s eleventh poetry collection Love in the Last Days, a verse retelling of the Tristan and Iseult myth, is out from Knopf in New York this fall. His book Voices over Water, published by CB Editions, was shortlisted for the 2011 Forward Prize. The quotes in English that appear in this essay from Henri Michaux’s poem, “The Land of Magic,” were translated from the French by Dennis Nurkse. This essay appeared originally in Poetry London in a slightly different form.

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