Jóhann Hjálmarsson added to The Project for Innovative Poetry blog!

Read more about Jóhann Hjálmarsson and see some translations by C.M. Burawa here: http://pippoetry.blogspot.com/2009/10/johann-hjalmarsson.html

(Just a reminder: we published Of the Same Mind, Burawa's translation of Hjálmarsson, in 2005. There are still a few copies available!)


The Forest

The forest avoids my certainty
gives me assurances
The forest shuns my quiet mind
gives me the wakefulness of trees
I fill the forest with my breath
I fill the forest with song and heartbeat
The birds jubilantly sing like the sky does
The forest’s sky that intrudes into my dreams


—Translated from the Icelandic by Chris Burawa

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New for 2009

THE BADEN-BADEN LESSON PLAY ON ACQUIESCENCE

by Bertolt Brecht

translated from the German by Justin Vicari

27 pages, paper, staple bound. Cover photo by Brett Hendricks.

Toad Press, 2009, $5.00