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The Poet Won't Be Coming Tonight – intro video

For three months you've been translating a poetry collection whose author signs only as “Cloud” and never appears in person. The publisher finally arranges a meeting for you at a calligraphy studio in Muscat, but the woman waiting there tells you the poet won't be coming tonight. Then she glances at your manuscript and points out that in the seventh poem, you got “rain” wrong.

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