Two Lines 8: Cells
Fall 2001
Out of Print
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
Tableau in Homage to Marie de France | With Time Capsule
Translated from Galician by Carys Evans-Corrales
When Did You Become a Hill
Translated from Japanese by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura
The Prisoner
Translated from Russian by Lydia Razran Stone and Ronald Lightbourne
There's No Messiah for a Broken Mirror
Fiction
Mazas
Translated from French by Robin Orr Bodkin
Hazel and the Captain
Translated from French by Albert LaFarge
Benny Bean Does a Good Dead
Translated from Hebrew