Editor’s Choice
Rose Ausländer
MY NIGHTINGALE
My mother was once a deer
the golden-brown eyes
the elegance
stayed with her from her time as deer
Here she was
half angel half human-
the middle
Four Contemporary Female Voices
Anne Cotten
EXTENSION, POSSESSION
Your name is far and wide, and yet it was sometime,
I mean, not long ago you were a new lesion.
And
Most of the Austrian literature is written in German and very often, to a non-German-speaking reader that encounters this body of literature in English translation,