Modern Poetry in Translation Third Series–Number Eight
Getting it Across
Cable-Ship
We fished up the Atlantic cable betweeen Barbados and Tortuga, held up our lanterns and patched over the gash on its back, fifteen degrees north and sixty-one west. When we put our ears to the gnawed part we heard the murmuring of the cable. One of us said: ‘It’s the millionaires in Montreal and St John’s discussing the price of Cuban sugar and the lowering of our wages.’
We stood there long, thinking, in a lantern circle, we patient cable-fishers, then lowered the mended cable back to its place in the sea.
(Harry Martinson , trans. Robin Fulton)
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Also in this issue: Jenny Joseph, Annemarie Austin, Bernardo Atxaga and Robert Walser.
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