METAMORPHOSES
Fall 2000
8.2
The following is the Table of Contents from the Fall 2000 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.
EDITORIAL
| THALIA PANDIRI | From the Editor in Chief | 12 | |
| MELINDA KENNEDY | An Editorial Letter | 14 |
POETRY
| SPECIAL SECTION ON IOAN ES. POP | The Anthracite Prayer Introduced by Nathaniel Smith oltetului 15, camera 305 Translated from the Romanian by Nathaniel Smith and Ioan Cretu Casa Translated from the Romanisan by K. Shaver and Ioan Cretu banchetul Translated from the Romanian by Ioan Cretu and Nathaniel Smith |
19 24 38 60 |
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| ISHIKAWA TAKUBOKU | from Sad Toys Translated from the Japanese by Carl Sesar |
64 |
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| JAMES SACRÉ | from The Word Madness
is Only a Word, In the Poem from Whether the Book is the Desert or the Oasis? Translated from the French by David Ball |
70 74 |
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| SANDRA MOUSSEMPÈS | from Vestiges of Girlhood "'Hopes' Without Silvering" Reflection 1-9 Translated from the French by Carolyn Shread |
78 |
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| CLAUDE VIGÉE | Jubilee Whilst Adam Slept Translated from the French by Martin Wilmot Bennett |
90 92 |
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| PHILIPPE JACCOTTET | Madrigal Translated from the French by Martin Wilmot Bennett |
94 |
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| CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE | Nightfall The Chosen Ones Shards The Greek Fountain Truth Natural History The Floor's a Bed On the Marble of Your Bum Remains The Migrant's Illusions Three in a cafe Translated from the Portuguese by Charles Cutler |
96 98 100 102 102 104 104 106 106 106 110 |
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| FIAMA HASSE PAIS BRANDÃO | Epistle to a Swan Epistle to the Siren of a Boat Epistle to the Beloved Epistle to a Mandolin, Always Upon a Table Epistle to Daedalus Epistle to an Equinox Epistle to a Sundial with the Inscription, "Carpe Diem" Epistle to the Sun Epistle to Myself, Long Ago, on All Saints Day Memorandum on a Window that Taps Like the Beak of a Raven Memorandum for a Fable Memorandum for Myself, Thinking of Keats Translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin |
112 112 114 114 116 116 116 118 118 118 120 120 |
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| GARCILASO DE LA VEGA | Sonnet 29 Translated from the Spanish by Eric Clifford Graf |
122 |
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| BARTOLO CATTAFI | Blank Page Plaza de Toros The Colors of the South Past Years Winter Fortunetelling Translated from the Italian by Rina Ferrarelli |
124 124 126 126 128 |
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| JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE | Welcome and Parting Translated from the German by Walter Arndt |
130 |
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| NIKOLAUS LENAU | To Her Afar Translated from the German by Walter Arndt |
134 |
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| THEODOR STORM | Die Stadt translated from the German by Walter Arndt |
136 |
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| JOHN KHOURY | The Annointed Translated into German by Gabriele Hadl |
138 |
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| PIA TAFDRUP | Repetition The Sign of Remembrance Territorial Song Sabbath The Face Raised Up Translated from the Danish by Roger Greenwald |
142 144 144 146 148 |
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| YUHN BOK KIM | Atop a Home Hill Longing Translated into Korean by the author |
150 152 |
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| SAPPHO | Like the Gods Come to me from Crete Some say an army To her you were like a visible goddess Royal-throned immortal Aphrodite Truly I want to die! Three Fragments: Introduced and translated from the Ancient Greek by Katherine Callen King |
154 156 156 158 160 162 164 |
PROSE
| MADELEINE DE SCUDÉRY | Story of Sappho Introduced and translated from the French by Karen Newman |
168 |
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| YIORGOS IOANNOU | The Sarcophagus Introduced and translated from the Modern Greek by Martin McKinsey |
188 |
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| CESARE PAVESE | Chapter One from The Moon and the Bonfires Translated from the Italian by Melinda Kennedy |
193 |
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| MARIO RIGONI STERN | from Giacomo's Season's Translated from the Italian by Liz Harris |
199 |
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| STANISLAV DYGAT | from Rainy Evenings Resurrection Grapes of Wrath A Very Narrow Point of View The Name Day Translated from the Polish by Stephanie Kraft |
204 207 210 212 |
MACEDONIAN FICTION
| RICHARD GAUGHRAN | Introduction | 215 | |
| BLAZE MINEVSKI | The Balkans for Children Translated from the Macedonian by Zoran Anchevski and Richard Gaughran |
216 |
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| MITKO MADUNKOV | The Bombing Translated from the Macedonian by Richard Gaughran |
222 |
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| PETRE M. ANDREEVSKI | Chapter One of The Last Peasants Translated from the Macedonian by Richard Gaughran and Lence Milosevska |
225 |
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| VENKO ANDONOVSKI | Isijan's Shadow Translated from the Macedonian by Zoran Anchevski and Richard Gaughran |
240 |
APPROACHES TO TRANSLATION
| JOEL TANSEY | A Strategy for Translating Medieval Lyric: Rutebeuf's "La Griesche d'yver" | 248 |
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| ELIZABETH WELT TRAHAN | Writing a Holocaust Memoir in Two Languages -- A Balancing Act | 256 |
SPECIAL SECTION ON AGHA SHAHID ALI
| RAJEEV S. PATKE | Translation as Metaphor: The Poetry of Agha Shadid Ali | 266 |
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| FAIZ AHMED FAIZ | from The Rebel's Silhouette City of Lights A Prison Daybreak In Search of Vanished Blood Stay Away from Me (Bangladesh I) Translated from the Urdu by Agha Shadid Ali |
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| AGHA SHAHDID ALI | from The Half-Inch Himalayas A Dream of Glass Bangles Houses Translated into Hebrew by Yehudith Ben Zvi Heller |
290 292 |
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| YEHUDITH BEN ZVI HELLER | from The Woman in a Purple
Coat Standing Outside Just Before Sunset in Armon Ha'natzive Patience from Salt Women In a Foreign Country On the Morning of My Departure Translated from the Hebrew by Agha Shahid Ali |
296 298 300 300 304 |
REVIEWS
| ORM ØVERLAND | Through Naked Branches: Selected Poems of Tarjei Vesaas Translated from the Norwegian and edited by Roger Greenwald |
308 |