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Two Lines 8: Cells

Fall 2001

Out of Print

Additional Info

ISBN: 1-931883-07-6
ISSN: 1525-5204
Publication Date: October 1, 2001
At five, by the radio, we say goodbye—, Okay then,
see you tomorrow—, in the twilight’s bloody breeze…
—from “The Gamble” by Sunil Gangopadhyay, translated from Bengali by Nandini Gupta
 

Two Lines, Issue 8: Cells features fiction from Inger Christensen (tr. Peter Holm-Jensen), Yoko Tawada (tr. Susan Bernofsky), and Nazli Eray (tr. Ozlem Sensoy), among others. And poetry from Cesare Pavese (tr. Geoffrey Brock), Ko Un (tr. Brother Anthony of Taizé and Young-moo Kim), Louise Ackerman (tr. Norman Shapiro), and Faiz Ahmed Faiz (tr. Hamida Banu, Nasreen G. Chopra, and Zack Rogrow), among others.

Table of Contents

Poetry

The Gamble

Translated from Bengali by Nandini Gupta

Lamentation in Captivity

Translated from French by J. Kates

The Bee

Translated from French by Norman R. Shapiro

Tableau in Homage to Marie de France | With Time Capsule

Translated from Galician by Carys Evans-Corrales

Words from Confinement

Translated from Italian by Geoffrey Brock

Caged Bird

Translated from Italian by David Goldstein

When Did You Become a Hill

Translated from Japanese by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura

A Drunkard

Translated from Korean by Young-moo Kim

Melior's Parrot Is Dead

Translated from Latin by Betty Rose Nagle

The Prisoner

Translated from Russian by Lydia Razran Stone and Ronald Lightbourne

A Baroque Cell

Translated from Spanish by Mark Schafer

The Wolves Are Howling

Translated from Swedish by Anne Charlotte Harvey

There's No Messiah for a Broken Mirror

Translated from Urdu by Hamida Banu, Nasreen G. Chopra, and Zack Rogow

Polyhedrons and Substances

Translated from Spanish by John Oliver Simon

The Women Vacuum...

Translated from Portuguese by Paulo da Costa

Fiction

Perpetuum Mobile

Translated from Danish by Peter Holm-Jensen

Mazas

Translated from French by Robin Orr Bodkin

Hazel and the Captain

Translated from French by Albert LaFarge

Storytellers Without Souls

Translated from German by Susan Bernofsky

Benny Bean Does a Good Dead

Translated from Hebrew

Bárcena's Dog

Translated from Spanish by Donald A. Yates

Advice Column

Translated from Japanese by Wayne P. Lammers

The Cellular Engineer

Translated from Turkish by Ozlem Sensoy