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Read work by the 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award winners in PEN America 6.
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Canguncem
This is a mind-blowing poem, made up of over 600 fragments, by a young poet, born in 1964. The language is a very delicate balance between chaos and a sense of unity deriving from Sufism, all of it intermingled with a militantly gay sensibility. A section of it is forthcoming in English in the magazine Lung.

Recommended by Murat Nemet-Nejat.

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