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Mark Kanak is a writer and translator splitting time between Chicago and Berlin. His translations and work have appeared (or are upcoming) in various journals, including Prague Literary Review, Umelec, Text's Bones, POM2 , Big Bridge (Anthology of Midwest Writers), traverse, Gam, Generator, nth position, 3 a.m., thee flat bike, foam:e, Ugly Tree and so on. The e-book, numbers, was published by poetic inhalation in 2004 and abstürze / crashes will appear with xPressed in Spring 2005. Recent translations (into English) include Helicopter Hysteria by Heinrich Dubel, selected work from Austrian author Peter Pessl including his book of short stories, Aquamarine, (into German), Schlitzrosäugig Verschlingen Schatten by Matthew Wascovich / Elisa Ambrogio (Slow Toe Press) and short stories by Bulgarian author Zdravka Evtimova.

  totalit / arian
[no evidence and nothing suggests]
   them raisin pic / kers
  bl / ew thei /r expurgated assign+ments

  compe / tency test now clo \ sed
   infer / no eng+ulfed citi \ zens
  of my ow / n priv / ate country

  dan / ger fed on meat ho / ok
    suicide lis / ts
it's now cl / ear
  the trap / s been set

[so]

  i've sen / t a dele / gation to
    yo / ur kingdom
beating silver dr /ums
  another war of 1812 cla / iming
  yet another sava / ge daugh / ter
a tele / gram in white

[that says]

mys / tery investigative slideshow
prese / nted me this day
bears out the / se sure facts
in a most dist / urbing way

brimming ri / ver burst its banks
  water bourn / e diseases've broken
right str / aight out
  evil bus / ts and booms and bangs
with rooted el / bow
       and seeping sorro / w

  wai / ting for your vac / ant thing
has pro / ved severe cho / pping
    in shor / t i've
dropp / ed right dead
  to / day fled the ci /ty
and mad /e for the distant
      brown-grey h / ills → [i'll wait for you there]