December 1997
6.1
The following is the Table of Contents from the December 1997 edition of Metamorphoses.
Some of the selections are linked and available online; the complete edition,
including the original language versions for the poetry, is only available in print.
FICTION and OTHER PROSE
| Melinda Kennedy | By Way of Being an Editorial | 1 |
FICTION and OTHER PROSE
| Nancy Dersofi | Translating Ruzante's Obscenities Translation Seminar Lecture delivered at Amherst (Dec. '96) |
4 | |
| Manlio Cancogni | Death of a "Queen Mother" Translated from the Italian by Hélène Cantarella |
15 | |
| Sara Lidman | Woyzeck in Svappavaara Translated from the Swedish by Eva Claeson |
19 | |
| Edward Radzinsky | Koba (Monologue of an Old Man) Translated from the Russian by Laszlo Tikos |
26 | |
| Marjorie Agosin | The Autumn of the Mothers Translated from the Spanish by the author |
36 | |
| Cesare Pavese | Chapter XL, La Luna e i Falò Translated from the Italian by Melinda Kennedy |
46 |
POETRY
| Beverly Matherne | When a Man Gets Cancer Aunt Elphia I Call Mama on the Telephone Translated from the Cajun by the author |
52 54 56 |
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| K. Tangalychev | See the Leaves The Hunter Extending above a gold ravine... On the Leaves... Apples A burgeoning May... Translated from the Russian by Dean Furbish |
58 60 60 62 62 64 |
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| Giovanni Pascoli | Purple Digitalis Jasmine at Night Translated from the Italian by Ron Banerjee |
66 72 |
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| Gunnar Ekelöf | Melancholia Euphoria Translated from the Swedish by Brita Stendahl |
74 76 |
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| Sappho | He seems the equal of the gods, that man Translated from the Greek by Carolyn Smith |
78 |
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| Melinda Kennedy | Autobiography Translated into Portuguese by Maria Lúcia Milléo Martins |
80 |
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| Irene Lisboa | Irony Thread of a Gaze That's How One Lives Things of the Earth Another Day ("That pretty young maid...") Another Day ("All finished work...") An Outing To Write Translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin |
82 84 86 88 90 94 96 98 |
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| Alessandro Ferace | A Group of Poems Translated from the Italian by Hélène Cantarella and Melinda Kennedy |
100 | |
| Steve O'Halloran | Your Eyes Campesino 500 Years After the First "New World Order" Thought of a Street Dweller Hand of the Moon Legacy Translated from the Spanish by the author |
112 112 114 114 116 118 |
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| Kristian Suda | Dune/Cape Cod Translated from the Czech by Ron Banerjee, with Maria Nemcová Banerjee |
120 |
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| Aleksis Rannit | At the Ford Trinakria In the Fifth Power of Sleep Translated from the Estonian by Henry Lyman |
124 126 126 |
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| Rainer Maria Rilke | Revisited Translations from the German by Elizabeth Welt Trahan, with comparison translations by MD Herter Norton and Melinda Kennedy |
128 | |
Songs of the Women Trouvères |
132 |
REVIEWS
| Melinda Kennedy | Poet in Translation On Joseph Brodsky's posthumously published So Forth |
145 |
REFLECTIONS
| Melinda Kennedy | Ruminations on the Verb | 149 | |
| David Daube | On English Spelling | 154 | |
| Clarice Lispector | A Thought Translated from the Portuguese by Ana Regina Faria Dos Santos |
155 |
