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Matt Miller's avatar

I had no idea that Edwin Muir, who along with his wife, Willa, authoritatively translated Kafka to the world for all of us until the work finally went out of copyright. If you've read Kafka prior to the 1990s, you probably read their translations. They did all of the major work for Schocken Press. I had no idea he wrote poems--and yes, good ones. This is a very good poem indeed. 

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Dominque Nuñez Barnet's avatar

Thank you for sharing. I had never read this poem before. Thank you for walking me through!

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