Multilingual Short Works Collection 035 - Poetry & Prose

A constellation of voices from across languages and centuries, this collection gathers poetry and prose that most English readers will never encounter in translation. Here, Arthur Rimbaud's revolutionary 'Voyelles' reimagines the very sound of vowels, while Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's 'Am Thurme' offers a German Romantic meditation on solitude and the view from above. Medieval Latin fables by Odo of Cheriton provide biting wisdom from the 13th century, their animal stories as sharp now as they were then. What unites these works is their brevity and their power to transport listeners into minds working in French, German, and Latin. This is not background music for reading. It is the thing itself: the pure pleasure of hearing language do what translation cannot. For anyone curious about what poetry sounds like in its original tongue, this collection offers a doorway.