Ian Seed

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Author: Forgetfulness, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Makers of Empty Dreams. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gëzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk

. My Final Poem   Someone rides a bicycle through a cemetery, then in and out of my poem. Why would anyone do that?   I was expecting a dark horseman, not a clown on a bicycle. .

I’ve been rereading Kafka’s The Trial (in Willa and Edwin Muir’s translation). I can’t quite believe I first read this half a century ago when I was in my teens. I think this is my 7th reading. The book has lost nothing of its power. And it still shocks and moves and makes me laugh at the same time.

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