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ISBN: 978-1-931883-19-1
ISSN: 1525-5204
Pages: 270
Publication Date: October 1, 2011
Distributed By: Publishers Group West

Two Lines 18: Counterfeits

Fall 2011
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When the order to fire is finally given

everything is excitement and turmoil,

each man is responsible for his part

and no one is responsible for the wreckage.

 

—from “Battery” by Julio Martinez Mesanza, translated from the Spanish by Don Bogen

 

True poetry in its own language chastises our desire for easy interpretation, but translation has the double task of delivering clarity, while preserving mystery. I hope the translations here achieve that paradoxical goal. They do for me. I know a translation works as art when I begin to hear a vibration around the words and at the same time see images arising in the theater of the mind, and in intense cases, to feel a nervous excitement translating into a physical need to take up pencil and paper and begin to draw. That kind of aroused listening and reading represents one phase of a long, unfolding, consequential process: writing calls for creative reading, which leads to translation, which gives birth to more creative reading, which may lead to other creations—writing again, or the writing we call drawing, yet another translation.

—ROSANNA WARREN

Table of Contents
Fiction
The Letter Killers' Club
By Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Translated from Russian by Joanne Turnbull
Varamo
By César Aira
Translated from Spanish by Chris Andrews
Angel of Destruction
By Martin Reiner
Translated from Czech by Andrew Oakland
Battery
By Julio Martinez Mesanza
Translated from Spanish by Don Bogen
Lace
By Uršuľa Kovalyk
Translated from Slovak by Julia Sherwood
Alphonsine
By Magdalena Platzova
Translated from Czech by Alex Zucker
The Art of Resurrection
By Hernan Rivea Letelier
Translated from Spanish by Jeremy Osner
Perishable Scores
By Antonin Bajaja
Translated from Czech by Andrew Oakland & Gabriela Oaklandova
Joseph Walser's Machine
By Goncalo Tavares
Translated from Portuguese by Rhett McNeil
The Neruda Case
By Roberto Ampuero
Translated from Spanish by Carolina De Robertis
The Colors of Infamy
By Albert Cossery
Translated from French by Alyson Waters
Basya Solomonovna's Third World War
By Margarita Khemlin
Translated from Russian by Lisa Hayden
The Stonecutter
By Camilla Lackberg
Translated from Swedish by Steven T. Murray
Birdsong
By Leopold Lahola
Translated from Slovak by Julia Sherwood
Poetry
The Mirror's Paths
By Alejandra Pizarnik
Translated from Spanish by Adam Giannelli
Lay
By Elisabeth Rynell
Translated from Swedish by Rika Lesser
Bdin—The Dump
By Ivan Hristov
Translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel
At the End
By Moshe Dor
Translated from Hebrew by Barbara Goldberg & Moshe Dor
"The tree that got loose from the forest can't mend our fence..." | "The sun came between us in all of our squabbles..."
By Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Translated from French by Marilyn Hacker
August | In the Beginning
By Primo Levi
Translated from Italian by Harry Thomas & Marco Sonzogni
Realization | On the Roof of the World
By Tsogdorjin Bavuudorj
Translated from Mongolian by Lyn Coffin
December Orange
By Francesc Parcerisas
Translated from Catalan by Cyrus Cassells
Change
By Ngo Tu Lap
Translated from Vietnamese by Martha Collins
27 | 32
By Eduardo Milán
Translated from Spanish by John Oliver Simon
Ballad of the Hanged
By Francois Villon
Translated from French by Aaron Kerner
Foot of the Bed | Listen, Dearest One
By Narsinh Mehta
Translated from Gujarati by Meena Desai
The Partisan's Death Certificate
By Henrik Nordbrandt
Translated from Danish by Patrick Phillips
Identity Check
By Vahé Godel
Translated from French by Victor Pambuccian
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