April 2009

Ana Benaroya, "Crazy Head," 2008.

Hester Knibbe
Chika Sagawa
Ramón Baraibar
Franco Fortini
Quirinus Kuhlmann

Table of Contents

From this Issue

Poem

Lava and Sand

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Translator’s Note: “Lava and Sand” by Hester Knibbe

Poem

Backside

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Hester Knibbe
- Lava and Sand
- Last Night
Jacquelyn Pope
- Translator’s Note: “Lava and Sand” by Hester Knibbe
- Translator’s Note: “Last Night” by Hester Knibbe
Chika Sagawa
- Backside
Sawako Nakayasu
- Translator’s Note: “Backside” by Chika Sagawa
Ramón Cote Baraibar
- Coal Deliveryman
Craig Arnold
- Translator’s Note: “Coal Deliveryman” by Ramón Cote Baraibar
Franco Fortini
- Sonnet of the Seven Chinese
Geoffrey Brock
- Translator’s Note: “Sonnet of the Seven Chinese” by Franco Fortini
Yoel Hoffmann
- from Curriculum Vitae
Peter Cole
- Translator’s Note: “Curriculum Vitae” by Yoel Hoffmann
Sergey Gandlevsky
- Stanzas
Sasha Dugdale
- Translator’s Note: “Stanzas” by Sergey Gandlevsky
Dahlia Ravikovitch
- The Second Trying
- The Love of an Orange
Chana Bloch
- Translators’ Note: “The Second Trying” by Dahlia Ravikovitch
- Translators’ Note: “The Love of an Orange” by Dahlia Ravikovitch
Yang Lian
- Island (#2)
Arthur Sze
- Translator’s Note: “Island (#2)” by Yang Lian
Gabriel & Marcel Piqueray
- A Pedal-Pusher Said to Me
Robert Archambeau
- Translator’s Note: “A Pedal-Pusher Said to Me” by Gabriel & Marcel Piqueray
Göran Sonnevi
- from Mozart’s Third Brain
Rika Lesser
- Translator’s Note: from “Mozart’s Third Brain” by Göran Sonnevi
Günter Eich
- Inventory
Joshua Mehigan
- Translator’s Note: “Inventory” by Günter Eich
Osip Mandelstam
- “Yet to die. Unalone still.”
- “Alone I stare into the frost’s white face”
John High
- Translator’s Note: “Yet to die. Unalone still.” by Osip Mandelstam
- Translators’ Note: “Alone I stare into the frost’s white face” by Osip Mandelstam
Mantinadologoi
- Mantinades
Nick Papandreou
- Translators’ Note: “Mantinades” by Mantinadologoi
Álvaro de Campos
- “So many gods!”
- “Ah Margarida”
Jules Supervielle
- Prophecy
Moniza Alvi
- Translator’s Note: “Prophecy” by Jules Supervielle
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
- “No, I wasn’t meant to love and be loved”
Vijay Seshadri
- Translator’s Note: “No, I wasn’t meant to love and be loved” by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Patrick Dubost
- What I Know
Fiona Sampson
- Translator’s Note: “What I Know” by Patrick Dubost
Pura López-Colomé
- Echo
Forrest Gander
- Translator’s Note: “Echo” by Pura López-Colomé
Salwa Al-Neimi
- Dracula
Shawkat M. Toorawa
- Translator’s Note: “Dracula” by Salwa Al-Neimi
Diakwain
- The Broken String
Harold Farmer
- Translator’s Note: “The Broken String” by Diakwain
Víctor Terán
- The north wind whips
Shook
- Translator’s Note: “The north wind whips” by Víctor Terán
Biddy Jenkinson
- The Chinese Mother’s Lullaby
Friedrich Hölderlin
- from In Lovely Blue
George Kalogeris
- Translator’s Note: from “In Lovely Blue” by Friedrich Hölderlin
Franz Wright
- Letter to the Editor
Averill Curdy
- Averill Curdy Responds
Joshua Weiner
- Letter to the Editor
Joseph Dorazio
- Letter to the Editor
Michael Salcman
- Letter to the Editor
Stephen Sandy
- Letter to the Editor
Neal Whitman
- Letter to the Editor
Kathleen Thomas
- Letter to the Editor
Edward Vogel
- Letter to the Editor