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December 1996
5.1

The following is the Table of Contents from the December 1996 edition of Metamorphoses.
The complete edition, including the original language versions for the poetry, is only available in print.

  LASZLO TIKOS EDITORIAL: A Report from Land 1
  JOSEPH BRODSKY

NEW VERSES:
Landscape with Flood
The Town We Lived In
To the Upcoming Century
Translated from the Russian by Lazslo Tikos with Melinda Kennedy


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8
10
  W.H. AUDEN from Songs and Other Musical Pieces
Translated from the English by Joseph Brodsky 		12
  JOSEPH BRODSKY After Auden
MCMXCIV
After Us, Of Course
In the Byzantine Manner
Translated from the Russian by Laszlo Tikos with Melinda Kennedy
15
16
18
20
  MIKHAIL PETROVICH Joseph Brodsky's Funeral, Memorial Services: Notes of an Eyewitness
Translated from the Russian by Laszlo Tikos 		24
  ALEKSANDR KUSHNER & ANATOLY SOBCHAK An Evening in Honor of Joseph Brodsky
Translated from the Russian by Mina Nedialkova 		28

 

POETRY

 
  JOACHIM DU BELLAY Heureux Qui
Translated from the French by Warren D. Anderson, Anthony Hecht and Richard Wilbur 		40
  ALEKSIS RANNIT

End of an Unwritten Poem
Word
After the Storm
Translated from the Estonian by Henry Lyman

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44
46
  GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Delight
At Rest
Translated from the Italian by Melinda Kennedy 		48
48
  EUGENIO MONTALE Motet I
Motet VII
Motet VIII
Translated from the Italian by Melinda Kennedy with Hélène Cantarella 		50
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52
  ALESSANDRO FERACE The Almond Tree
Alzheimer's
Translated from the Italian by Hélène Cantarella with Melinda Kennedy 		54
54
  BRONISLAVA VOLKOVA The Hour of the Earth
Translated from the Czech by the author
56
  TRISTAN CABRAL The Man-Hunter
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mort
In the Deserted Towns
After Five at Maracaibo
At Night Surviving
Return of the Trees
At San Marco
Translated from the French by John S. Dixon

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70
  CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Landscape: How to Make It
Translated from the Portugese by Maria Lucia Milléo Martins 		72

 

FICTION and OTHER PROSE

 
  ALDO PALAZZESCHI Madame Bouché (A Period Piece)
Translated from the Italian by Hélène Cantarella 		77
  ILAN STAVANS & MARJORIE AGOSIN

A Conversation: Two Jewish Latin-American Writers

85
  ALCINA LUBICH DOMECQ Bottles
Translated from the Spanish by Ilan Stavans 		95
  GAITO GAZDANOV Hawaiian Guitars
Translated from the Russian by Larry Bogoslaw
97
  TCHICAYA U TAM'SI The Whirlwind
Translated from the French by Stephanie Daval 		111

 

REVIEWS

 
  RON BANERJEE Robert Pinsky: The Inferno of Dante 117
  ROBERT ELLIS HOSMER JR.

Joseph Brodsky: On Grief and Reason

120

 

REFLECTIONS

 
  MELINDA KENNEDY The Sea's Language 128
  GORDON S. WOOD

A Fact Worth Noting (from The Writingest Explorers)

130
  Translation Prize for David Ball 131

 

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