Fall 2009
17.2

The following is the Table of Contents from the Fall 2009 edition of Metamorphoses.
The complete edition, including the original language versions for the poetry, is available only in print.



  Thalia Pandiri Editorial 12
  Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Saint Kabir, Rudyard Kipling, and Vernacular English 18
  Astrid Cabral

River of Yesteryear
Urubamba
First Mirror
Translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin

 40
42
44
  Amanda Aizpuriete [Untitled]
Translated from the Latvian by Inara Cedrins		 46
  Margareta Ekström Before She Was Born
About Heritage
When She Was Very New
In the Morning
At the Window
At the Country Cottage
Very Close
The Blind Wall
About I and Dead
Translated from the Swedish by Eva Claeson

52
52
54
56
58
60
62
62
64

  René Villard The Cemetery of Saint-Nic
Translated from the French by J. Kates		 66
  Cecco Angiolieri

Deadbeat Dad
Just Do It
Our Dead Dads: A Celebration
Relentlessly Remorseful
Translated from the Italian by Brett Foster

 68
68
70
70
  Mila Ramos Europa
Gaza
Translated from the Spanish by Natalia Carbajosa		 74
74
  Gracia Iglesias

There was a Mermaid in my Glass of Water
An Intoxicating Pleasure
Translated from the Spanish by Natalia Carbajosa

 78
80
  George Seferis Pantoum
Translated from the Greek by Miltiades Matthias		 82
  Yehudit Ben Zvi Heller [Untitled]
Morning Walk
Hansel and Gretel
Translated from the Hebrew by the poet		 86
86
88
  Hezy Leskly

[Untitled]
The Hour of Complete Forgetting
An excerpt from Poetry
Translated from the Hebrew by Adriana X. Jacobs

 90
90
92
  Apollonius of Rhodes

Aphrodite Welcomes Hera and Athena to Her Home
The Trials of Jason
Translated from the Ancient Greek by Aaron Poochigian

 94
104
 
  Julia Franck Crumb Cake
Translated from the German by Nedra E. Bickham		 114
  Wolfdietrich Schnurre The Monastery
Translated from the German by Ingrid Lansford
 116
  Keto von Waberer High Fashion
Translated from the German by Ingrid Lansford		 121
  Cristina Fernández-Cubas Death in Captivity
Translated from the Spanish by Andrea E. Olsen		 128
  Espido Freire The Black Sheep
Translated from the Spanish by Toshiya Kamei		 143
  Yoshiro Takayashu Memory and Infidelity
Translated from the Japanese by Toshiya Kamei		 145
  Susan Matthias Translator's Introduction to excerpt from The Lissome Maiden by Andreas Karkavitsas 147
  Andreas Karkavitsas Excerpt from Chapter 3 "The Celebrants," from the [1890] novel The Lissome Maiden
Translated from the Greek by Susan Matthias		 151
  Marguerite Itamar Harrison Review: The Underbelly of (Brazilian Society) Laid Bare: Nelson Rodrigues, Life As It Is: Selected Stories 180

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