Fires


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Table of Contents

Kirk Anderson from SPANISH (Cuba)
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: A Cuban Tobacco Legend (Napoleón S. Padilla: Leyenda Cubana del tabaco: Tabaquina)

S. V. Atalla from ARABIC (Palestine)
Spring (Liana Badr: Rabi’)

Christopher Bakken and Roula Konsolaki from MODERN GREEK (Greece)
Cure (Titos Patrikios: Iasis)

Elizabeth Bell and John Ross from SPANISH (Chiapas, Mexico)
Commitments (Parents & Teachers of Tierra y Libertad, Chiapas; Reported by Enrique Calderón A.: Compromisos que se asumen)

James Brook from FRENCH
Still the Two of Us (Henri Michaux: Nous deux encore)

Josefa Devesa-Seva from CATALAN (Valencia, Spain)
Ramona Rosbif (Isa Tròlec: Ramona Rosbif)

Robert Klein Engler from SPANISH (Mexico)
Fireflies (José Gorostiza: Luciernagas)

Jack Foley from FRENCH
Litanies of Satan (Charles Baudelaire: Les litanies de Satan)

Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura from JAPANESE
Lightning and Shadows: Poems by Ryuichi Tamura
-Notes Regarding Lightning (Inazuma ni kansuru nooto)
-Raincoat (Reinkooto)

Stephen Haven and Wang Shouyi from CHINESE
Cremation (Gu Cheng: Huo Zang)

Mark Herman and Ronnie Apter from ITALIAN
Burned at the Stake (Salvadore Cammarano: Stride la vampa from Il trovatore)

Jen Hofer from SPANISH (Mexico)
The Double Man (Beatriz Escalante: El hombre doble from La magia de la inmortalidad)

J. Kates from FRENCH
Pompeii (Yvan Goll: Pompei)

L. R. Kiyama from JAPANESE
On Seeing a Painting of Hell (Saigyo: Jigokue o mite)

Michael Koch from SPANISH (Mexico)
Fire Signs (Francisco Hernández, based on woodcuts by Artemio Rodríguez)
-Aries (Aries)
-Leo (Leo)
-Sagittarius (Sagitario)

Rita Kothari from GUJARATI (Gujarat, India)
Pyre (Raghuvir Chaudhury: Chita)

Alexis Levitin from PORTUGESE
Passion’s Letter (Herberto Helder: a carta da paixao)

Paul Losensky from PERSIAN (Iran)
Lyric Fires of the Persian Baroque: Ghazals
-I am the ruby… (Nazem of Herat: yaqut-e kan-e mashreq-am)
-World-consuming love… (Sa’eb of Tabriz: nadarad ‘eshq-e ‘alamsuz parva-ye)
-I have a heart… (Kalim of Kashan: deli daram k-az u delha be-suzad)

Christopher Mattison from RUSSIAN
Samurai Daughter (Anastasiya Sergeyevna Gosteva: Doch Samuraya)

Simon Patton from CHINESE
Flames (Han Shaogong: Huoyan)

Norman R. Shapiro from FRENCH
Ready! Aim! Fire! Two Vignettes by Alphonse Allais
-The Volatile Mother-in-Law or, Science to the Rescue (Scientia liberatrix ou, La belle-mère explosible)
-The Germ of the Problem (Il ne faut faire aux microbes nulle peine, même légère)

John Oliver Simon from SPANISH (Peru)
Survival: Eight Stanzas of Commentary on the Words of Buddha (Mirko Lauer: Sobre vivir: Ocho estrofas de comentario sobre las palabras del Buda)

Marilya Veteto-Conrad from GERMAN
Firebreak (Zehra Çirak: Feuerwehrpause)

Sasha Vlad and Zack Rogow from ROMANIAN
Heraclitus (Gellu Naum: Heraclit from Focul negru)

Carolyne Wright and Mohammad Nurul Huda from BENGALI (Bangladesh)
With Savage Fire: Poems by Nasima Sultana
-Memorial for a Sailor (Ekjan Nabiker Smrtiphalak)
-Compromise (Bosapara)

 

 
 
last update: July 10, 2004