Poems

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  • Poem by Jahangir Hossain translated from the Bengali by Lloyd Schwartz with Jahangir Hossain

    I’ve come again—
  • The Last Few Feet

    And so the thyme fell and spilled a neat pile
  • Berlin

    We see the public statues
  • “Summer with Monika” translated from Polish by Scotia Gilroy

    we spent the days lying on the hot asphalt, fleeing
  • Dealing with the Forbidden & How It Begins

    I've a talent for throwing things away.
  • Litterature

    I am pleased
  • Portrait of My Father as a Snake

    I was dead. The hospital around me
  • Museling, a Pastoral

    I’m reading a poem by a young woman,
  • The Host of Turns

    We were gathered in this kind of circus-tent,
  • Lichen Prospectus

    Specimen leaves sung down for pages
  • I Had a Cheerful and Gentle Dog

    I had a cheerful and gentle dog.
  • OLD HUSBAND’S TALES

    I’m one who tells old husbands’ tales, not wives’,