Summer 1999
7.2
The following is the Table of Contents from the Summer 1999 edition
of Metamorphoses, a special issue on Slavic and Baltic Poetry.
The complete edition, including the original language versions
for the poetry, is available only in print.
| Matthew Daube | Editorial | 8 |
BULGARIAN
| Valeri Petrov | Photos from the Archives A Cry from Childhood Translated from the Bulgarian by Richard Wilbur |
12 14 |
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| Blaga Dimitrova | Through the Window Freshly Washed Ballad of the Drowned Verses Book of Hours Handiwork Translated from the Bulgarian by Mina Daube |
16 18 20 22 |
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| Rumani Zakharieva | [The crickets grew hoarse...] Native Tongue Translated from the Bulgarian by Mina Daube |
24 26 |
CZECH
| Frantisek Halas | Verlaine Remembers Rimbaud Lítost Quotes When the Bomb Explodes The Pied Piper Translated from the Czech by Ron D.K. Banerjee and Maria Nemcová Banerjee |
30 32 34 36 36 |
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| Vladimir Holan | Snow Slippery Ice Resurrection Departure Translated from the Czech by Ron D.K. Banerjee and Maria Nemcová Banerjee |
38 40 40 42 |
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| Jirí Kolár | Night The Old Jew [A tress of warm hair] Translated from the Czech by Ron D.K. Banerjee and Maria Nemcová Banerjee |
44 46 46 |
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| Ivan Blatny | Variation Soul Historic Painting Translated from the Czech by Deborah H. Garfinkle |
48 50 50 |
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| Bohuslav Reynek | November I October Frost Translated from the Czech by Alfred Thomas |
52 54 54 |
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| Jan Skácel | Sonnet in the Shape of Blues Teiresias Reads a Message... [Even the waters of Lethe freeze] Autumn in Town Love Translated from the Czech by Ron D.K. Banerjee and Maria Nemcová Banerjee |
56 58 60 60 60 |
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| Milada Soucková | View from the Window Portrait of a Child Dusicky—All Souls Translated from the Czech by Ron D.K. Banerjee and Maria Nemcová Banerjee |
62 64 66 |
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| Bronislava Volková | [The guile of the dragon sleighs...] Translated from the Czech by the author |
68 |
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| Kristián Suda | To and Fro [All that lingers] Translated from the Czech by Ron D.K. Banerjee and Maria Nemcová Banerjee |
70 72 |
LITHUANIAN
| Tomas Venclova | Henkus Hapenckus, In Memoriam San Michele Winter Dialogue [Desist, desist...] Two Poems About Love Translated from the Lithuanian by Diana Senechal |
76 80 82 86 88 |
POLISH
| Krystyna Milobedzka | [On a windowpane...] [Cacti are clumps of terror...] [Jellyfish tease the sea...] Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh |
94 94 94 |
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| Ryszard Krynicki | As always different I just have to imagine doors Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh |
96 96 |
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| Ewa Lipska | The Scents of Evil 2001 Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh |
98 100 |
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| Adam Zagajewski | New World Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh |
102 |
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| Stanislaw Baranczak | Voice Coaching Translated from the Polish by the author and Clare Cavanagh |
112 |
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| Bronislaw Maj | In June Ascent Fragment Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh |
116 116 116 |
RUSSIAN
| Anna Akhmatova | [Do not be frightened...] Translated from the Russian by Nina Kossman |
120 |
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| Osip Mandelshtam | [Zeus fired Hephaestus] [A light smoke...] Translated from the Russian by Nina Kossman |
122 122 |
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| Marina Tsvetaeva | To Mayakovsky Translated from the Russian by Laszlo Tikos |
124 |
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| Yunna Morits | Reading a Greek Pitcher Translated from the Russian by Nina Kossman Episode with Aphrodite Translated from the Russian by Nina Kossman and Andy Newcomb |
134 136 |
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| Boris Filipoff | [After abducting Europa] Translated from the Russian by Nina Kossman |
138 |
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| Aleksandr Kushner | [Whether or not I believe in a god] [How we struggle with our clothes...] [On a winter night...] [Seeing that cottage...] Translated from the Russian by Ron D.K. Banerjee and Maria Nemcová Banerjee [Genius must inspire awe] Translated from the Russian by Nina Korotkova |
140 142 144 146 148 |
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| Viktor Krivulin | A Poet's Fate The Mountaineer Verse Follows Verse Translated from the Russian by Ron D.K. Banerjee and Maria Nemcová Banerjee |
150 150 152 |
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| Vladimir Gandelsman | [Speak looser...] [This—the steppe...] [Meanwhile, this imagined life] [I will take that winter's...] [Getting dark. Getting black...] [So what if they crack—] Translated from the Russian by Yana Djin |
154 156 158 160 162 164 |
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| Marina Temkina | Today We Killed a Mouse Diary Notes... ["A government..."] [God rhymes with baby goat] Lucretia Translated from the Russian by Dimitri Oram with Thalia Pandiri An Extract from an Unpublished Book Translated from the Russian by Nina Korotkova |
166 170 172 174 176 180 |
SLOVAK
| Milan Rufus | A Difficult Hour A Poem and a Prayer Parting Translated from the Slovak by Peter Petro |
184 186 188 |
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| Jan Ondrus | On the Way to a Slaughter... German Search-Party 1944 Translated from the Slovak by Peter Petro |
190 192 |
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| Milan Richter | Faces... Great Great Grandmother Weiss Translated from the Slovak by Peter Petro |
196 198 |
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| Peter Petro | German Quartet Translated from the Slovak by the author |
200 |
