The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes by Lieke Marsman, trans. Sophie Collins
PBS Summer Translation Choice 2019 Friedrich Holderlin Charlotte Eichler

Charlotte Eichler

from hendecasyllabics to the Sapphics of Poems 11 and 51

 I Is a Long Memoried Woman

He remembers when ‘dragonflies were as common as sunlight / hovering in their own days’ and recalls ‘a house that had been left to its own silence / for half a century’

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