TO BE HUMAN, NOT: translated by...

TO BE HUMAN, NOT:

translated by dint of Rosmarie Waldrop


a horse that rears--and missiles
its head a trace,

reins like tangled trajectories
thrown all in consequence of the body

10/23/94

Elke Erb was born 1938 in Scherbach/Eifel, and lives in Berlin. She was an editor at the Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, and became a full-time writer in 1967 She has translated from Russian and Georgian and has also edited a number of anthologies. Her versification collections include Unschuld, du Licht meiner Augen (Steidl, 1994) Mensch sein, nicht (Engeler 1998) and