Hearing Eye

In this collection Ingeborg Santor translates John Rety’s poems into German. Ruth Ingram, translates in turn, a selection of Ingeborg Santor’s poetry. Here are beautiful, witty, demanding poems created in two challenging languages — English and German. Between these two languages a space is created, full of possibilities, interpretations, differences of emphasis, enhancements: understandings.

Granite

Your word fell
between us
hit the ground
and was left lying.

A hard piece too large for other words ever to overcome.