Benny Bunter
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Yeah hanky-panky is an awful word isn't it. Very prosey this one, too.I liked these two longer ones as well, although the translation seems iffy in places - "hanky-panky"?
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We hear Professor Salem Aleikum, the reporter still slavering over him: "the professor is lying on the porch of his house with his lute cradled in his arm singing the old ballads"— probably on an ottoman, with a carafe of ice water at his side, rejecting old hypotheses, putting out new ones— the…www.poetryfoundation.org
I was looking into another German WW1 poet the other week who I really liked, August Stramm, an expressionist (maybe the first, in poetry?) I'll post some stuff when I get some more time. I was comparing different translations and it's amazing how much they vary.
