METAMORPHOSES
Fall 2001
9.2
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 | 14 |
POETRY
| SAVIANA STANESCU | The Infanta Margherita The Infanta Augustina The Infanta Francesca The Infanta Manola The Infanta Isabella Translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin snd Aura Sibisan with the poet |
24 24 26 28 30 |
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| SAÚL YURKIEVICH | Perch'i No Spero Di Tornar Giammai Memorable Moratorium Luminary Translated from the Spanish by Cola Franzen |
32 36 38 40 |
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| ROSA ALICE BRANCO | The Eye of the Needle Mid-Winter Night's Dream Room With Wicket-Window Opaqueness of the World Day by Day Endless, the Night Notes for a Concert Translated from the Portugese by Alexis Levitin |
48 48 50 50 52 52 54 |
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| ROBERT FROST | Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same Meeting and Crossing Translated into the Italian by Alessandro Ferace |
56 56 |
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| EMILY DICKINSON | To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee A Light exists in Spring Translated into the Italian by Alessandro Ferace |
58 58 |
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| RAFFAELE CARRIERI | No Harps For Ezra Pound in the Washington Asylum Eros Revision The Basket Spiral Stairway Distant Din Saragossa Translated from the Italian by Martin Wilmot Bennet |
62 62 64 64 66 66 66 68 |
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| PIERRE DE RONSARD | from Sonnets Pour Hélène Sonnet For Hélène III Translated from the French by Warren Anderson |
70 |
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| GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE | Hunting Horns Translated from the French by Warren Anderson |
72 |
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| ANNIE BOUTELLE | Notes on the Rilke Translation | 74 | |
| RAINER MARIA RILKE | from Das Stunden Bach, 1899 |
76 78 78 80 82 82 |
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| WOLF BIERMANN | Monkey on the Rocks Translated from the German by Ina Pfitzner |
84 |
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| BORIS VIAN | I'm a Snob Translated from the French by Ina Pfitzner |
88 |
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| MADELEINE GAGNON | excerpts from Dream of Stone (Rêve de Pierre) Translated from the French by Andrea Moorhead |
94 |
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| MICHEL JOURDAIN | De + Ablative = About Translated from the French by Nicole Ball |
106 |
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| KYRIAKOS HARALAMBIDIS | Naked The Queen's Window Horses in a Tholos Tomb Deposition from The Cross The Sun Translated from the Modern Greek by Martin McKinsey |
130 130 132 134 134 |
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| BARBRO DAHLIN | Clear Day The Wing-Beat of the Days At the End of the Day Dusk Memories in the Evening The Year Falls Headlong Love Slothy Slipshod Shut Epilogue Translated from the Swedish by Eva Claeson |
136 136 136 138 140 140 142 144 144 |
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| OSIP MANDELSTAM | Ariosto What Street is This? Translated from the Russian by Seth Zimmerman |
146 148 |
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| LASZLO TIKOS | Introduction: Three Russian Poems of Suicide | 150 | |
| DAN LEVIN | Letter to Laszlo Tikos | 151 | |
| SERGEY YESENIN & VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY | Three Russian Poems of Suicide 1. Untitled (December 25, 1925) - S.Y. 2. To Sergey Yesenin (1926) - V.M. 3. His own suicide poem (unfinished, 1930) - V.M. Translated from the Russian by Laszlo Tikos |
152 152 166 |
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| ARTUR ALLIKSAAR | Turning Point Introspective Masquerade There Are So Many Flowers, and Yet... Striking Matches in a Pitch Dark Alley Translated from the Estonian by Inna Feldbach and Alan Trei |
172 174 178 180 |
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| POLINA DIMOVA | An Introduction to the Poet: Konstantin Pavlov | 182 | |
| KONSTANTIN PAVLOV | Elegiac Optimism Capriccio for Goya You, Sweet Agony Translated from the Bulgarian by Polina Dimcheva Dimova |
184 186 186 |
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| KASUKO SHIRAISHI | from The Precious Tears of the Donkey, 2000 A Bear of the Human Family I and I The Swallow's Clock The Laughing Cricket Regarding the Future The Donkey from One Who is Carried Away, Fluttering, 1992 The Seven Cats are Happy Translated from the Japanese by Yumiko Tsumura and Samuel Grolmes |
190 192 194 196 198 200 |
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| CHANG CHI | Clearing After Snowfall Over the District of Hui Chi Translated from the Classical Chinese by Andy Shupala |
202 |
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| RON BANERJEE | A Note on the Translation: Gitagovinda | 204 | |
| JAYADEVA | Gitagovinda (Canto V. Song 11.) Translated from the Sanskrit by Ron Banerjee |
206 |
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| MARGALIT MATITIAHU | from Burnt Home Translated from the Hebrew by Yehudit Heller and Stephen Clingman Translated from the Ladino by Diana Brown and Kathleen Rettig Before the Journey Before Arriving in Saloniki Freedom Square Saloniki Pale Shadows Mother Against War Translated from the Hebrew by Karen Alkalay-Gut |
210 210 212 215 218 220 |
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| YEHUDIT BEN ZVI HELLER | from The Woman in a Purple Coat End of a Visit Jerusalem Light excerpts from: A Weekend on the Beach in Caesaria a. The Whole Beach is a Palace b. In the Moonlight A Night in Acadia from Salt Women On the Road to Your Mother's Funeral Translated from the Hebrew by Agha Shahid Ali with the poet |
222 224 224 226 226 228 |
PROSE
| JEONG-HUI OH | River of Fire Translated from the Korean Ha-yun Jung |
234 |
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| CHRISTOFOROS MILIONIS | from the collection Nessus Shirt The Lute from the collection Elevator Operator Induction Ceremony Translated from the Modern Greek by Thalia Pandiri |
256 260 |
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| ALMUDENA GRANDES | from Exemplary Women (Modelos de Mujer) excerpt from the Prologue: Memories of a Gypsy Girl Mother Love Translated from the Spanish by Lydia Oram |
263 267 |
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| JAAN KAPLINSKI | A Brief Life Story Translated from the Estonian by Inna Feldbach and Alan Trei |
275 |
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| KARIM ZAIMOVIC | The Secret of Raspberry Jam Translated from the Bosnian by Fatime Mujcinovic |
288 |
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| PURUSHOTTAM LAXMAN DESHPANDE | Narayan Translated from the Marathi by Sunil Gokhale |
301 |
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| ZYGMUNT HAUPT | Rain Translated from the Polish by Stephanie Kraft |
316 |
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| MICHAL GLOWINSKI | from Czarne Sezony (The Black Seasons) The Pastry Emil Translated from the Polish by Marci Shore |
321 325 |
APPROACHES TO TRANSLATION
| CHARLES BAUDELAIRE | Envirez-Vous: Get Drunk: a literal translation from the French by Thalia Pandiri Get High: a transmutation into a concrete poem by Warren Anderson |
332 333 |
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| 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) | 335 |
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| THALIA PANDIRI | Bilingual Creative Writing: A Conversation with Margalit Matitiahu | 343 |
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| THALIA PANDIRI | Poets Translating Poets: An interview with Yehudit Heller | 347 |
HÉLÈNE CANTARELLA (1904-2000)
| MELINDA KENNEDY | In Memoriam | 358 | |
| MANLIO CANCOGNI | For Hélène Translated from the Italian by Lydia Oram |
360 |
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| CHARLES KILLINGER | Hélène Pacquin Cantarella and the Legacy of Anti-Fascism in America: a Tribute to a Woman of Courage and Elegance | 382 |
REVIEWS
| GEORGE C. SCHOOLFIELD | Hjalmar Söderberg. The Serious Game. Translated by Eva Claeson. London: Marion Boyars Publishers. 2001. | 390 |
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| THALIA PANDIRI | Metafrassi '00: Revue de la Traduction. Vol. 6, 2000. Edited by Odette Varon Vassard. Association Metafrassi. Athens, Greece. | 394 |
REFLECTIONS
| MELINDA KENNEDY | Meditation on the Word And | 400 |