Selected Poems | 
pickThe introduction starts out highlighting some of the difficulties of translating Gorter, like his penchant for making changes to a lot of words in his own language which are hard to carry over into English.
While the longer ones were beyond me most of the time (I couldn‘t get into them), Haft was able to capture the beauty of Gorter in the smaller ones perfectly:
Like the glance
of a star
on a lake:
her dance.
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