Fall 2001

Fall 2001
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The following is the Table of Contents from the Fall 2001 edition of Metamorphoses.
Some of the selections are linked and available on-line; the complete edition, including the original language versions for the poetry, is only available in print.

Thalia Pandiri:

• Editorial, page 14.

Saviana Stanescu, Translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and Aura Sibisan with the poet:

• The Infanta Margherita, page 24.
• The Infanta Augustina, page 24.
• The Infanta Francesca, page 26.
• The Infanta Manola, page 28.
• The Infanta Isabella, page 30.

Saúl Yurkievich, Translated from the Spanish by Cola Franzen:

• Perch’i No Spero Di Tornar Giammai, page 32.
• Memorable, page 36.
• Moratorium, page 38.
• Luminary, page 40.

Rosa Alice Branco, Translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin:

• The Eye of the Needle, page 48.
  Mid-Winter Night’s Dream, page 48.
  Room With Wicket-Window, page 50.
  Opaqueness of the World, page 50.
  Day by Day, page 52.
  Endless, the Night, page 52.
  Notes for a Concert, page 54.

Robert Frost, Translated into the Italian by Alessandro Ferace:

• Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same, page 56.
• Meeting and Crossing, page 56.

Emily Dickinson, Translated into the Italian by Alessandro Ferace:

• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, page 58.
• A Light exists in Spring, page 58.

Raffaele Carrieri, Translated from the Italian by Martin Wilmot Bennet:

• No Harps, page 62.
• For Ezra Pound in the Washington Asylum, page 62.
• Eros, page 64.
• Revision, page 64.
• The Basket, page 66.
• Spiral Stairway, page 66.
• Distant Din, page 66.
• Saragossa, page 68.

Pierre de Ronsard, Translated from the French by Warren Anderson:

• From Sonnets Pour Hélène:
  • Sonnet For Hélène III, page 70.

Guillaume Apollinaire, Translated from the French by Warren Anderson:

• Hunting Horns, page 72.

Annie Boutelle:

• Notes on the Rilke Translation, page 74.

Rainer Maria Rilke:

• Translated from the French by Annie Boutelle:
  • From Das Stunden Bach, 1899:
    • Neighbor God, page 76.
    • What Will You Do?, page 78.
    • Before He Makes Each One, page 78.
• Translated from the German by Annie Boutelle:
  • From Les Roses, 1948:
    • Rose (VI), page 80.
    • Rose (X), page 82.
    • Rose (XII), page 82.

Wolf Biermann, Translated from the German by Ina Pfitzner:

• Monkey on the Rocks, page 84.

Boris Vian, Translated from the French by Ina Pfitzner:

• I’m a Snob, page 88.

Madeleine Gagnon, Translated from the French by Andrea Moorhead:

• Excerpts from Dream of Stone (Rêve de Pierre), page 94.

Michel Jourdain, Translated from the French by Nicole Ball:

• De + Ablative = About, page 106.

Kyriakos Haralambidis, Translated from the Modern Greek by Martin McKinsey:

• Naked, page 130.
• The Queen’s Window, page 130.
• Horses in a Tholos Tomb, page 132.
• Deposition from The Cross, page 134.
• The Sun, page 134.

Barbro Dahlin, Translated from the Swedish by Eva Claeson:

 

• Clear Day, page 136.
• The Wing-Beat of the Days, page 136.
• At the End of the Day, page 136.
• Dusk, page 138.
• Memories in the Evening, page 140.
• The Year Falls Headlong, page 140.
• Love, page 142.
• Slothy Slipshod Shut, page 144.
• Epilogue, page 144.

Osip Mandelstam, Translated from the Russian by Seth Zimmerman:

• Ariosto, page 146.
• What Street is This?, page 148.

Laszlo Tikos

• Introduction: Three Russian Poems of Suicide, page 150.

Dan Levin:

• Letter to Laszlo Tikos, page 151.

Sergey Yesenin and Vladimir Mayakovsky, Translated from the Russian by Laszlo Tikos:

• Three Russian Poems of Suicide:
  • 1. Untitled (December 25, 1925) – S.Y., page 152.
  • 2. To Sergey Yesenin (1926) – V.M., page 152.
  • 3. His own suicide poem (unfinished, 1930) – V.M., page 166.

Artur Alliksaar, Translated from the Estonian by Inna Feldbach and Alan Treil:

• Turning Point, page 72.
• Introspective Masquerade, page 174.
• There Are So Many Flowers, and Yet…, page 178.
• Striking Matches in a Pitch Dark Alley, page 180.

Polina Dimova:

• An Introduction to the Poet: Konstantin Pavlov, page 182.

Konstantin Pavlov, Translated from the Bulgarian by Polina Dimcheva Dimova:

• Elegiac Optimism, page 184.
• Capriccio for Goya, page 186.
• You, Sweet Agony, page 186.

Kasuko Shiraishi, Translated from the Japanese by Yumiko Tsumura and Samuel Grolmes:

• From The Precious Tears of the Donkey, 2000:
  • A Bear of the Human Family, page 190.
  • I and I, page 192.
  • The Swallow’s Clock, page 194.
  • The Laughing Cricket, page 196.
  • Regarding the Future  The Donkey, page 198.
• From One Who is Carried Away, Fluttering, 1992:
  • The Seven Cats are Happy, page 200.

Chang Chi, Translated from the Classical Chinese by Andy Shupala:

• Clearing After Snowfall Over the District of Hui Chi, page 202.

Ron Banerjee:

• A Note on the Translation: Gitagovinda, page 204.

Jayadeva, Translated from the Sanskrit by Ron Banerjee:

• Gitagovinda (Canto V. Song 11.), page 206.

Margalit Matitiahu

• Translated from the Hebrew by Yehudit Heller and Stephen Clingman, and translated from the Ladino by Diana Brown and Kathleen Rettig:
  • From Burnt Home:
    • Before the Journey, page 210.
    • Before Arriving in Saloniki, page 210.
    • Freedom Square, page 212.
    • Saloniki, page 215.
    • Pale Shadows, page 218.
• Translated from the Hebrew by Karen Alkalay-Gut:
  • Mother Against War, page 220.

Yehudit Ben Zvi Heller, Translated from the Hebrew by Agha Shahid Ali with the poet:

• From The Woman in a Purple Coat:
  • End of a Visit, page 222.
  • Jerusalem Light, page 224.
• Excerpts from: A Weekend on the Beach in Caesaria
  • a. The Whole Beach is a Palace, page 224.
  • b. In the Moonlight, page 226.
  • A Night in Acadia, page 226.
• From Salt Women:
  • On the Road to Your Mother’s Funeral, page 228.

Jeong-Hui Oh, Translated from the Korean by Ha-yun Jung:

• River of Fire, page 234.

Christoforos Milionis, Translated from the Modern Greek by Thalia Pandiri:

• From the collection Nessus Shirt:
  • The Lute, page 256.
• From the collection Elevator Operator:
  • Induction Ceremony, page 260.

Almudena Grandes, Translated from the Spanish by Lydia Oram:

• From Exemplary Women (Modelos de Mujer):
  • Excerpt from the Prologue: Memories of a Gypsy Girl, page 263.
  • Mother Love, page 267.

Jaan Kaplinski, Translated from the Estonian by Inna Feldbach and Alan Trei:

• A Brief Life Story, page 275.

Karim Zaimovic, Translated from the Bosnian by Fatime Mujcinovic:

• The Secret of Raspberry Jam, page 288.

Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Translated from the Marathi by Sunil Gokhale:

• Narayan, page 301.

Zygmunt Haupt, Translated from the Polish by Stephanie Kraft:

• Rain, page 316.

Michal Glowinski, Translated from the Polish by Marci Shore:

• From Czarne Sezony (The Black Seasons):
  • The Pastry, page 321.
  • Emil, page 325.

Charles Baudelaire:

• Envirez-Vous:
  • Get Drunk: a literal translation from the French by Thalia Pandiri, page 332.
  • Get High: a transmutation into a concrete poem by Warren Anderson, page 333.

Peter Wortsman:

• Simultaneous Musils or Will the Real Dichter Please Rise from the Dead! (A Comparative Look at a Line in Various Translations of Nachlaß zu Lebzeiten), page 335.

Thalia Pandiri:

• Bilingual Creative Writing: A Conversation with Margalit Matitiahu, page 343.
• Poets Translating Poets: An Interview with Yehudit Heller, page 347.

Hélène Cantarella (1904-2000):

Melinda Kennedy:

• In Memoriam, page 358.

Manlio Cancogni, Translated from the Italian by Lydia Oram:

• For Hélène, page 360.

Charles Killinger:

• Hélène Pacquin Cantarella and the Legacy of Anti-Fascism in America: a Tribute to a Woman of Courage and Elegance, page 382.

George C. Schoolfield:

• Hjalmar Söderberg.  The Serious Game. Translated by Eva Claeson. London: Marion Boyars Publishers. 2001, page 390.

Thalia Pandiri:

• Metafrassi ’00: Revue de la Traduction. Vol. 6, 2000. Edited by Odette Varon Vassard. Association Metafrassi. Athens, Greece, page 394.

Melinda Kennedy:

• Meditation on the Word And, page 400.

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