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I'm posting some favorite poems-in-translation this week to the comm

poetry, and would love some help tracking down the original language texts to include with the English translations. Does anyone know where I could find the original texts for the following poems? (Links, when included, go to the relevant posts to be edited at

poetry.)

Breyten Breytenbach's "Breyten prays for himself" [Afrikaans]

Tanikawa Shuntarō's "Sadness" [Japanese]

Tomas Tranströmer's "Sketch in October" [Swedish]

~~Herberto Padilla's "Man on the Edge" [Spanish]~~ - all set! Many thanks to fixdrk

~~Yevgeny Yevtushenko's "Hand-Rolled Cigarettes" [Russian]~~

spiralsheep

It's autumn here in my four-seasoned, north-of-the-equator, home but I know some of you are a world away from me. Inspired by

kore, have some Nobel prize-winning-poet produce in Swedish and then English translation....

Tomas Tranströmer

Ljuset Strömmar In

Utanför fönstret är vårens långa djur
den genomskinliga draken av solsken
rinner förbi som ett ändlöst
förortståg – vi hann aldrig se huvudet.

Strandvillorna flyttar sig i sidled
de är stolta som krabbor.
Solen får statyerna att blinka.

Det rasande eldhavet ute i rymden
transjorderas till en smekning.
Nedräkningen har börjat.

(Translation by Patty Crane)

The Light Streams In

( Translation and second poem with audio. )

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jjhunter - Looking for original language texts
spiralsheep - Two poems by Tomas Tranströmer (recent Nobel prizewinner)

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