The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes by Lieke Marsman, trans. Sophie Collins
PBS Summer Translation Choice 2019 John Donne 'Takes you back closer to

'Takes you back closer to something of the thrill and the wonder the poem would have had in the days when it was composed

Paul Muldoon

both ancient

the knight reclaims his head

'“Grun-tu-molani” is borrowed from Bellow’s phrase meaning “man wants to live” and Ravinthiran’s verse seems driven by a comparably urgent impulse

The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes by Lieke Marsman, trans. Sophie Collins <br><b>PBS Summer Translation Choice 2019</b> John Donne 'Takes you back closer toIn 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