Spring and Fall 2004
12.1-2

The following is the Table of Contents from the Spring/Fall 2004 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 16
  HUGO CLAUS Old Man with Pig
Translated from Flemish into English by Luc Gilleman
Original Flemish
20


  REYES LÁZARO INTRODUCTION to the Words and Worlds Double Issue
22

 

WORDS AND WORLDS
HITZAKETA BIZ (H)ITZAK

 
  BERNARDO ATXAGA

Antzinako Bihotz
Arcaico Corazón
Original Basque
Basque into Spanish translation
43
45
 
Confession
Original Spanish and Basque
Spanish into English translation
by Reyes Lázaro and Dan Murphy

47
 
The Death and Life of Words
Original Basque
Basque into Spanish translation by the Poet
Basque into English translation by
Reyes Lázaro and Sarah Moon

56





 
Written in the USA
Original Spanish
Spanish into English translation by Margaret Jull Costa

62


 
Gau Izartsua
English into Basque translation of Anne Sexton’s Starry Night
by Bernardo Atxaga

68


  ITXARO BORDA


From Poems of the Infinite Silence
Original Basque
Basque into French translation by the Poet
Basque into English translation by
Iñaki Mendiguren and Sarah J. Turtle

69
  HARAKAITZ CANO

12 Sardines for Immediate Consumption
Original Basque

Basque into English translation by Justin Crumbaugh

88


 
Late Breaking News
Original Basque

Basque into English translation by Justin Crumbaugh

90


 
Momentua
Original Basque

Basque into English translation by Margaret Jull Costa

92


 
Poetry is Fiction (That’s Bull)
Original Basque
Basque into English translation by
Justin Crumbaugh and Sarah Moon

96


  FERIDA DURAKOVIC Book of Dreams
Bosnian into English translation by Nuala ni Dhomnaill
100
 
From the Textbook of Slavic Mythology
English and Bosnian into Irish translation by
Nuala ni Dhomnaill
English into Spanish translation by Reyes Lázaro
Bosnian and Irish into English translation by Nuala ni Dhomnaill

101

102
103
 
Georg Trakl on the Battlefield Revisited, 1993
English into Spanish translation by Reyes Lázaro
Bosnian into Irish translation by Nuala ni Dhomnaill
Bosnian into English translation by Nuala ni Dhomnaill


104
105
106
 
Good Evening the Guest is Gone
Bosnian into English translation by Nuala ni Dhomnaill
107
 

It’s April
English and Bosnian into Irish translation by Nuala ni Dhomnaill
English into Spanish translation by Reyes Lázaro
Bosnian into English translation by Nuala ni Dhomnaill


108
109
110
 
November, Raging Through Rooms
Bosnian into English translation by Nuala ni Dhomnaill
111
 
On What I Have Known for a Long Time
Bosnian into English translation by Nuala ni Dhomnaill
112
 
The Writer Contemplates His Homeland While a Famous Postmodernist Enters the City
Bosnian into English translation by Nuala ni Dhomnaill
113
  MENNA ELFYN The Shape She Makes
Original Welsh
Welsh into English translation by Elin ap Hywet
114
  Song of a Voiceless Person to British Telecom
Original Welsh
Welsh into English translation by R.S. Thomas
118
  MAITE GONZÁLEZ ESNAL Blackbirds in the Cornfield
Spanish into English translation by Phoebe Porter
122
  TERE IRASTORTZA Hawking
Original Basque
Basque into Spanish translation by Eli Tolaretxipi
Spanish into English translation by Phillip Jenkins
130
  Untitled
Original Basque
Basque into Spanish translation by Eli Tolaretxipi
Spanish into English translation by Reyes Lázaro and Sarah Moon
133
  Untitled
Original Basque
Basque into Spanish translation by Eli Tolaretxipi
Spanish into English translation by Reyes Lázaro and Sarah Moon
136
  MARIA-MERCÉ MARÇAL Solstici
Original Catalan
Catalan into English translation by Kathleen McNerney
139
  MIREN AGUR MEABE Brief Notes (1)
Original Basque
Basque into English translation by Amaia Gabantxo
143
  The Code
Original Basque
Basque into English translation by Amaia Gabantxo
145
  Notes on How to Avoid Memory Loss (2)
Original Basque
Basque into English translation by Amaia Gabantxo
147
  Notes on Anguish (2)
Original Basque
Basque into English translation by Amaia Gabantxo
149
  JULIA OXTOA Aphorisms and Poems
Original Spanish
Spanish into English translation by Kelsey Camire
152
  Cranes
Spanish into English translation by Sarah Moon
158
  Language of Shadows
Spanish into English translation by Sarah Moon
160
  MANUEL RIVAS All Animals Speak
Galician into English translation by Annabel Martin
163
  Introduction to Manifesto Against Silence
By Reyes Lazaro and Thalia Pandiri
169
  AURELIA ARKOTXA Just Like Aldous Huxley's Prophecy
French into English translation by Reyes Lázaro, Sarah Moon and Thalia Pandiri
171
  MANUEL RIVAS Manifesto Against Silence
Original Galician
Galician into English translation by Reyes Lázaro, Sarah Moon and Thalia Pandiri
173
  MONTSERRAT ROIG Before the Civil War
Catalan into English translation by Susan M. DiGiacomo
175
  IXIAR ROZAS Patois (III)
Original Basque
Basque into English translation by Iñaki Mendiguren and Sarah J. Turtle
183
  River Eyes
Original Basque
Basque into English translation by Carmine Starnino
185
  Egunero Gorriagoak/Cada Día Más Rojas
Translation of John Berger's Redder Everyday into Basque and Spanish by Ixiar Rozas
187
  JOSEBA SARRIONANDIA Message for Bernardo Atxaga
Original Portugese
Portugese into English translation by Reyes Lázaro and Sarah Moon
189
  A Pile of Worn-Out Shoes
Original Basque
Basque into English translatio by Reyes Lázaro
191
  ELI TOLARETXIPI The Fish
Original Spanish
Spanish into English translation by Phillip Jenkins and the Poet
193
  Los Lazos del Número
Original Spanish
Spanish into English translation by Phillip Jenkins

195
 

Poems from Dead Love, Still Life
Original Spanish
Spanish into English translation by Phillip Jenkins

199

 

ESSAYS ON WELSH

 
  MENNA ELFYN Deep Sounds of W(h)ales 208
  PAMELA PETRO Book Review of Y Llofrudd Iaith (The Language Murderer) by Gwyneth Lewis 215

 

TRANSLATIONS OF NUALA NI DHOMHNAILL

 
  Nude
English into Basque translation by Eli Tolaretxipi
English into Galician translation by Antonio Raúl de Toro Santos

English into Spanish translation by Isabel Alonso Breto
Irish into English translation by Paul Muldoon

222
224
226
228
  I Cannot Lie Here
English into Basque translation by Eli Tolaretxipi
English into Galician translation by Antonio Raúl de Toro Santos
English into Spanish translation by Isabel Alonso Breto
Irish into English translation by Paul Muldoon


230
231
232
233
  The Language Issue
English into Basque translation by Eli Tolaretxipi
English into Galician translation by Antonio Raúl de Toro Santos
English into Spanish translation by Isabel Alonso Breto
Irish into English translation by Paul Muldoon

234
235
236
237
  Labysheedy (The Silken Bed)
English into Basque translation by Eli Tolaretxipi
English into Galician translation by Antonio Raúl de Toro Santos
English into Spanish translation by Isabel Alonso Breto

Irish into English translation by the Poet

238
240
242
244
  My Own Love (In Brackets)
English into Basque translation by Eli Tolaretxipi
English into Galician translation by Antonio Raúl de Toro Santos
English into Spanish translation by Isabel Alonso Breto

Irish into English translation by Michael Hartnett

246
247
248
249
  The Task
Original Irish
Irish into English translation by Paul Muldoon

250
251
  You Are
English into Basque translation by Eli Tolaretxipi
English into Galician translation by Antonio Raúl de Toro Santos
English into Spanish translation by Isabel Alonso Breto

Irish into English translation by Eli Tolaretxipi


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