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Vol. 25, Nos. 1-2 (2004)

TRANSLATION DOUBLE ISSUE

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A Word From the Editor

Poetry
JAMES HOCH  Late Autumn Wasp
RICK BAROT  Self-Portrait as Roped Figure / Self-Portrait as Echo
AARON BAKER  On Kumaniembu / Spirits of the Low Ground
FAIZ AHMED FAIZ  Bury Me Under Your Streets / The Dawn of Freedom (translated from the Urdu by Ted Genoways)
VICTOR RODRIGUEZ NUNEZ  Prologue / Logic (translated from the Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen)
MARILYN HACKER  For Kateb Yacine
MICHAEL DIETZ  On a Crooked Sixpence (Pantoum of Vulgar Errors)
HENRIK NORBRANDT  Dream of Despair / Dream of Punishment / (translated from the Danish by Patrick Phillips)
RYSZARD KRYNICKI  I believe / No One’s Elegy / You are (translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles)
UMBERTO SABA  The Goat / A Winter Noon (translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock)
LUCIA PERILLO  To Nightingales
ALEXANDRA TEAGUE  Cork
LAURA KASISCHKE  Black Dress
ANTONIO RAMOS ROSA  Something Is Taking Shape (translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin)
PATRICE DE LA TOUR DU PIN  Psalm 3 / Psalm 4 (translated from the French by Jennifer Grotz)
EUNICE ODIO  Creation / Absence of Love (translated from the Spanish by Keith Ekiss and Sonia P. Ticas)
JENNIFER CHANG  Conversation with Owl and Clouds / Pastoral / The Forest on Second Thought
MELISSA STEIN  Bouillabaisse / Olives, Bread, Honey, and Salt
AMAUD JAMAUL JOHNSON  “Names we sing in sleep & anger”
ELIZABETH REES  Now That We’re Here
JENNIFER GROTZ  The Woodstove
EUGENGIO MONTEJO  Alphabet of the World / Written in Passing (translated from the Spanish by Kirk Nesset)
ALFRED CORN  Poem Found in Two Years Before the Mast

Fiction
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ  The Rat (translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston)
HANS JANOWITZ  Jazz (translated from the German by Cornelius Partsch and Damon O. Rarick)
GLEN POURCIAU  Hide
ARRIGO BOITO  The Black Bishop (translated from the Italian by David Castronuovo)
MARK WISNIEWSKI  Karmic Vapor
PETER LASALLE  Tell Borges If You See Him
TRUDY LEWIS  West Wind
VLADIMIR JABOTINSKY  What Is Permitted? (translated from the Russian by Michael R. Katz
JOANN KOBIN  Dr. Leopold’s Problem with Contentment

Recollections
PETER ABELARD  History of Calamities (translated from the Latin by William Levitan with Debra Nails)
RACHEL HADAS  Sssh! The World Is Sleeping

Biography
JEREMY BERNSTEIN  Oppenheimer’s Beginnings
MARK HARMAN  Missing Persons: Two Little Riddles About Kafka and Berlin

Reader’s Notebook
MARK RUDMAN  A Note on Javier Marías

Provocations
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF  The Temptations of Nihilism

Reflections on Translation
RONALD KNOX  On English Translation
HAROLD G. HENDERSON  On the Reading of Haiku, Especially in Translation
F. D. REEVE  The Glass Doors of Time
DICK DAVIS  On Not Translating Hafez

Cultural Documents
ROGER CASEMENT  The Language of the Outlaw

Music
CHRISTIAN DANIEL FRIEDRICH SCHUBART  On the Human Voice and the Characteristics of the Musical Keys (translated from the German by Ted DuBois)

Performance Pieces
JONATHAN LEVY  Nocturne

Literary Criticism
CAROL FROST  Elizabeth Bishop’s Inner Eye
GARY ADELMAN  Getting Started with Imre Kertész

Rediscoveries
OTTO JESPERSEN  The Fall from Poetry

For the Record
CORRECTION Contributor’s Note for Rachel Cantor

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Tod Gunter

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