— Édouard Glissant, from The Collected Poems Of Édouard Glissant (Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2005)
Maggie O'Farrell, from Instructions for a Heatwave (Headline Book Publishing, 2013)
And, of the voices that stray far from me, which one will be able to turn your journey and mine into a march of sleepless sunflowers? But no other good or other evil do they know than a lake of blue or gray, your eyes from an avenue’s shadow.
— Vittorio Sereni, from "To Youth," The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni: A Bilingual Edition (University Of Chicago Press, 2006)
— Clarice Lispector, from The Hour of the Star (New Directions, 1992)
Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics, 2022; first published 1982)
on my desk, fictional characters practice missing dialogue. i sit here as if at the root of an old disturbance, forcing air into my memory cells to keep them alive,
— Maja Haderlap, from "piran," Distant Transit (Archipelago Books, 2022)
But what are my words? Storm-twisted forests facing north, craggy rocks against day's harrowing fire.
Olav H. Hauge, from "Singing again," Selected Poems (White Pine Press, 1990)
Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics, 2022; first published 1982)
Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics, 2022; first published 1982)
—Tan Twan Eng, from The Garden of Evening Mists (Myrmidon, 2011)
Tan Twan Eng, from The Garden of Evening Mists (Myrmidon, 2011)
Ibn 'Arabi, from "Treatise of Unification," The Universal Tree and the Four Birds (Anqa Publishing, 2006)
Mónica Nepote, from Sin Puertas Visibles: an Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003)
Ada Limon, from "The Hurting Kind," The Hurting Kind: Poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022)