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Men I Hate: The Stasi Men

By Lynette D'Amico

Chaos Theory

By Courtney Zoffness

The Idiots

By Amanda Goldblatt

Mourn and Organize

By Olivia Schwob

Erika Burkart

Erika Burkart was born in Aarau, Switzerland, in 1922. Throughout her career she published over twenty-four collections of poetry, eight prose works, and was awarded numerous literary prizes, including the Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis (1961) and the Gottfried-Keller-Preis (1992). She was the only woman ever to have been awarded Switzerland’s highest literary prize, the Grosser Schillerpreis (2005). She passed away on April 14, 2010.
Poetry

An Early Morning in Daylight-Saving Summer

Erika Burkart, translated from the German by Marc Vincenz March 1, 2012

In a razor sharp buzzing they come to haul me / from my bat-infested nightmare-time—

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