The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes by Lieke Marsman, trans. Sophie Collins
PBS Summer Translation Choice 2019 Friedrich Holderlin ’ said Ezra Pound

’ said Ezra Pound

“Prynne and a Petoskey Stone” and “First and Last Opinions

which gazes out from the autumn of life

from hendecasyllabics to the Sapphics of Poems 11 and 51

those men were able to see the difference between a bicycle and a machine gun: later on

The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes by Lieke Marsman, trans. Sophie Collins <br><b>PBS Summer Translation Choice 2019</b> Friedrich Holderlin ’ said Ezra PoundIn 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