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Elizabeth Lo: “Like the dogs, I existed in a limbo where I wasn’t entirely part of human society.”

By Mary Wang

A Bulldozer’s American Dream

Poetry by Shangyang Fang

Hamilton’s Familiar Sound

By Catherine Provenzano

Men I Hate: The Stasi Men

By Lynette D'Amico

Valerio Magrelli

Valerio Magrelli was born in Rome in 1957. He is the author of four poetry collections and has received the Mondello Prize, the Viareggio Prize for Poetry, and the Montale Prize. He is a professor of French literature at the University of Cassino. His poems have been widely translated around the globe.
Poetry

[Tomorrow morning I will take a shower]

Valerio Magrelli, translated from the Italian by Adam Palumbo February 1, 2012

Tomorrow morning I will take a shower, / nothing else is certain but this.

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