Stuart Friebert

This piece is part of our Fall/Winter 2020 print issue. Translated from German by the author and Stuart Friebert 

Or Schwammerl. What you’d have called Schubert, standing over his 1.5 meters, if you were lucky enough to be his friend. If you were Augie Bank’s friend & Jewish, had broken your nose when tackling him in a Sherman Park sandlot game, he’d call you FNK in public, but slip you a sketch of your mug, captioned Flat-Nose-Kike, when

This piece is part of our Fall 2019 print issue. Translated from German by Stuart Friebert 

Translated from the German by Stuart Friebert She climbed into her red canoe without a paddle on a road heavy as lead, without water apples in her pack, absent a future, postcards in gaping shoes, dead holiday greetings yesterday, superseded, freezes, in the faces behind the blinds, the dark’s falling guillotines in the last crack,

Translated from the German by Stuart Friebert Too soon the night’s gobbled up the evening its light smothered wildly propelling winds and dark fingers of clouds to catch the hope of those fleeing on the rotting wood of the footbridge over the gorge

‘- Where do you want to go?
– I don’t know.
– When will you come back?

Translated, from the German, by Stuart Friebert     KARL  KROLOW (1915-1999) Krolow’s large body of work – thousands of signature poems (3 volumes of Selected Poems!), haunting prose, criticism of the highest caliber, and sublime translations, from the Spanish & English, all charting a major direction for German literature — will endure as long

Translated, from the Swiss German, by Stuart Friebert       KUNO  RAEBER (1922-1992) This Swiss writer’s considerable body of work – whose spare poems weigh tons, whose novels & stories, radio plays, essays, translations and reviews have left an indelible mark on European literature that is just becoming clearer & clearer – is now