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 |
6 8 10 |
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| W.H. Auden | XXX 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 |
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| Mikhail Petrov | Joseph Brodsky's Funeral, Memorial Services: Notes of an Eyewitness Translated from the Russian by Laszlo Tikos |
24 | |
| Aleksandr Kushner and Anatoly Sobachak |
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 |
44 44 46 |
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| Giuseppe Ungaretti | Delight At Rest Translated from the Italian by Melinda Kennedy |
48 48 |
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| Eugenio Montale | Motet I Motet VII Motet VIII Translated from the Italian by Melinda Kennedy with Hélène Cantarella |
50 52 52 |
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| Alessandro Ferace | The Almond Tree Alzheimer's Translated from the Italian by Helene Cantarella with Melinda Kennedy |
54 54 |
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| Bronislava Volková | 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 |
64 66 66 68 68 70 70 |
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| Carlos Drummond de Andrade |
Landscape: How to Make It Translated from the Portuguese by Maria Lúcia Milléo Martins |
72 |
FICTION and OTHER PROSE
| Aldo Palazzeschi | Madame Bouche (A Period Piece) Translated from the Italian by Hélène Cantarella |
77 | |
| Ilan Stavans and Marjorie Agosin |
A Conversation: Two Jewish Latin-American Writers | 85 | |
| Alcinca 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 |
