Winter 2009 (Volume LXI, No. 4)

The Translation Issue

Featuring literature from the French, German, Greek, Japanese, Middle English, Portuguese, Romanesco, Russian and reviews of works in Catalan, Icelandic, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Provençal, Spanish, Swedish


Essays

  • Song, Rain, Snow: Translating the Poetry of Yves Bonnefoy   Emily Grosholz   

Memoir

Fiction

Poetry

  • From The Great Snowfall; The Torches; Hopkins Forest (trans. by Emily Grosholz)   Yves Bonnefoy   
  • The Inspection; Lament of the Old Pole (trans. by Andrew Shields)   Jacques Réda   
  • The Subway, Moscow and Other Poems (trans. by Emily Grosholz and Larissa Volokhonsky)   Olga Sedakova   
  • From Antigone (trans. by Ruth Fainlight and Robert J. Littman)   Sophocles   
  • Three Poems from the Greek: Epigram by Callimachus (trans. by Edmund Keeley)   Callimachus   
  • Three Poems from the Greek: Epigram by Maecius (trans. by Edmund Keeley)   Maecius   
  • Three Poems from the Greek: When He Dies (trans. by Edmund Keeley)   Anonymous   
  • The Creation of the World and Other Poems (trans. by Charles Martin)   G. G. Belli   
  • Tangerines, My Boy, and Me; The Soy Mash Vendor (trans. by Lawrence Rogers)   Motomaro Senge   

Chronicles

Reviews

Comment

  • In Memoriam: Hayden Carruth (1921–2008)   David Mason