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Emmanuelle Merle (tr. Peter Brown)

fall2009

Poetry by Emmanuelle Merle (tr. Peter Brown), Elizabeth Murphy, and Rodney Wittwer

EMMANUEL MERLE (TRANSLATION BY PETER BROWN) Atomic City A plain amid the Rockies, a valley so large You might forget your name, that being born here Gives you a secret identity you may only reveal In Craters of the Moon, who remember in their blackened Corridors that they are the pores of the volcano Earth.