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On TranslationAuthor(s): Marianne BoruchSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Fall, 1979), p. 35Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20140284 .
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On Translation Marianne Boruch
The hungry man in the blue hat has borrowed his ghost, no
the ghost in the borrowed hat just sat down to dinner. The dinner's really something
is, all extraordinary, it is, more than that, well
a secret, shhhh! A lobster who did not die of fright. "So this one went willingly?" says the ghost with the borrowed tongue. "Oh yes oh yes oh yes" chants a chorus of waiters pressing a bright fork into his hand. "Ah, such a big one," thinks the man, "and such a little fork!" He is eating now,
reading, between bites, a small round book.
Perhaps the ghost of a book. It is hard to describe, but suddenly, as I watch, I see
the ghost of a lobster beneath the blue hat
rising, rising on a wave
which curls into itself. Something happens in that haunted mouth.
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