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Table of Contents

Ronnie Apter - Essay with lyrics from PROVENSAL
Making Bernart de Ventadorn Sing the Blues: Tracking Medieval Music in the Dark

Adam (Yuet) Chau from CHINESE
Selections from the Great Dictionary of the Chinese Language (Hanyu da zidian)

Eva Claeson from SWEDISH
Loom (Margareta Ekström: Vävstol)

Bidhubhushan Das and Oopalie Operajita from ORIYA (Orissa)
The Dynasty of the Immortals (Gopinath Mohanty: from Amrutara Santaan)

Chaumont Devin from BURU
Geba Bohot & Other Buru Tales (traditional: Geba bohox)

Charles H. Egan from CHINESE
Mountains in my Mind: Selected Poems by Ch'an Buddhist Monks
-New wellspring at I-feng Temple (Ling-i: I-feng hsin-ch'uan)
-Sent to Monk Yüan at Ch'ing-lung Temple (Wu-k'o: Chi Ch'ing-lung-ssu yüan shang-jen)
-Lodging on an autumn night (Chiao-jan: Ch'iu-wan su p'o-shan ssu)
-Old pine (Ch'i-chi: Ku-sung)
-Written before dying (Shu-shan K'uang-jen: Wu-t'i)
-Instructions for Ch'an meditation (Wu-chien Hsien-tu: Shih an-ch'an jen)

John Felstiner - Essay with poems from GERMAN (Austria) & FRENCH
You Must Change Your Line

Jori Finkel from FRENCH
Collecting Dada Debris: Three Pieces by Tristan Tzara
-Unmoored (Démarrage)
-Way (Voie)
-How I've Come to be Charming Agreeable and Delightful (Annexe: Comment je suis devenu charmant sympathique et délicieux)

Mark E. Francis from CHINESE
Limpid Tracks and Ghostly Traces: Translating Du Fu and Li He

Sing-chen Lydia Francis from CHINESE
The Dead Poets Society (Ji Yun: from Yuewei caotang biji)

Kathryn Hellerstein from YIDDISH (Poland)
My Father's Fur Coat (Kadya Molodowsky: Dem tatns pelts)

J. Kates from RUSSIAN
Just as the Trojan women fired Aeneas' boats (Nikolai Baitov: Kak zhenshchiny sozhgli Eneia korabli)

Susan Fulop Kepner from THAI
Dreamtracks: Nostalgia and Longing in Two Thai Writers
-No Songs Today, No Sepa (Naovarat Pongpaiboon: wannii maay mii pleeng seephaa)
-The Letter She Never Received (Sri Dao Ruang: jot maay thii maay thung phuu rap)

Maris Kundzins from LATVIAN
Epiphanies (Imants Ziedonis: Epifanijas)

Clifford Landers from PORTUGUESE (Brazil)
Trials of a Young Writer (Rubem Fonseca: Agruras de um Jovem Escritor)

Sieglinde Lug from GERMAN
Privileged Findings (Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Privilegierte Tatbestände)

Angelika Meyer from GERMAN
Two Early Poems of Reiner Kunze
-If two are rowing a boat (rudern zwei)
-The tall forest educates its trees (der hochwald erzieht seine bäume)

Alexander Mihailov from BULGARIAN
Homo Bulgaris, or Forecast 2090 (Vladimir Pisarski: Homo Bulgaris)

Jenifer Y. Nogaki from JAPANESE
Guardian of the Female Spirit (Shigeru Kayano: Megami no omamori)

Jo Ann Pantanizopoulos from GREEK
I was a shepherd: Five Greek Lullabies (traditional: Tsombanakos imouna)

Paul Rich and Guillermo De Los Reyes from SPANISH (Mexico)
The White Trail of Free Men and Freemasons
(Guillermo De Los Reyes: El Sendero Blanco de Hombres Libres y Francmasones)

Antonia Saxon from JAPANESE
A Little Miscellany of Summer Perspiration Strategies (from Shiki no kimono: Natsu no hi no ase taisaku arekore)

Neera Sohoni - Essay with HINDI
A Translator's Challenges and Dilemmas

Laura Stortoni from ITALIAN
Three Contemporary Italian Women Poets
-The Ship Leaving for Australia (Maria Luisa Spaziani: La nave per Australia)
-Not Through Apple but Through Orange Groves (Elisabetta Granzotto: Non per mele ma per aranceti)
-The Polynesians are Wise (Margherita Guidacci: Sono saggi i polinesiani)

Sasha Vlad and Zack Rogow from ROMANIAN
The Empire of Affinity: Three Poems by Dan Stanciu
-O, Road (O, Drum)
-Between Silica and Carbides (Intre Siliciu si Carbid)
-The Woman Covered with Drawings (Femeia Desenata)

Betsy Wing from FRENCH (Martinique)
The Open Boat (Édouard Glissant: La barque ouverte)

 

 
 
last update: July 10, 2004