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How to Wash Your Hands in a War Zone

By Gillian Esquivia-Cohen

Stitching and Writing on the Margin

By Roslyn Bernstein

The Requirement of Adequacy

Fiction by Emily Franklin

Maurice Chammah: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty

By Ann Neumann

Robert Walser

Robert Walser (1878-1956) was born in Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence while producing poems, stories, essays, and three novels: The Tanners (1906),  The Assistant (1908), and Jakob von Gunten (1909). In 1933, he abandoned writing and entered a sanatorium, where he remained for the rest of his life. “I am not here to write,” Walser said, “but to be mad.” Robert Walser: The Poems, edited and translated by Daniele Pantano, is forthcoming in 2020 by Seagull Books, London.
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Little Mouse

Poetry by Robert Walser, translated from the German by Daniele Pantano October 18, 2018
I stood still and said: What is this? / Why do you lie here so quietly?
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