METAMORPHOSES -journal of literary translation-

Spring and Fall 2006
14.1-2

The following is the Table of Contents from the Spring and Fall 2006
edition of Metamorphoses, a special double issue on Italian poetry and prose.
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

Other Italies, Italy's Others: Renewing Italian


Adeodato Piazza Nicolai	A History of the Dispossessed	42
Raffaello Baldini	E' brètt, Il beretto, The Cap Furistír, Forestiero, Outsider Lói, Luglio, July China, China, Liqueur La nàiva, La neve, Snow Translated from Romagnolo and Italian by Adria Bernardi	43 49 55 58 61
Fabio Franzin	From The Color of Words Translated from Opitergino-motense dialect and Italian by Adeodato Piazza Nicolai	85
Eligio Zanini	El Cucal Fileipo, Cu I lu ciamo Filéipo, Il Gabbiano Fillip, Philip the Seagull Sensa Pas, Senza Pace, Without Peace Translated from the Rovignese dialect of Istria and Italian by Adeodato Piazza Nicolai	94 97
Loredana Bogliun	La piera, La pietra, The Stone Translated from the Dignanese dialect of Istria and Italian by Adeodato Piazza Nicolai	99
Lucifero Martini	Istria Translated from the Italian by Adeodato Piazza Nicolai	101
Mario Schiavato	Carso Translated from the Italian by Adeodato Piazza Nicolai	102
Franco Loi	From Liber Translated from the Milanese dialect and Italian by Andrew Frisardi	103
Pier Paolo Pasolini	Li letanis dal Biel fi, The Litanies of the Handsome Boy Ploja tai cunfins, Rain at the Edges Chan plor, Dirge Translated from La nuova gioventu (Friulian dialect) by Luigi Bonaffini	112 113 114
Arnold de Vos	Travestito da uomo, Cross-dressed as a Man Intravisto in trattoria, Seen in an Eatery Ti fermi davanti a me, You Stop Before Me Imboscata, Ambush Mio dio è un giovane ragazzo, My God is Young Boy Nel gelo della Valsugana, In the Valsugana Frost Icaro, Icarus La Mia Voce Migrante, My Migrant Voice La Mano non Data, The Hand Not Given Translated from the Italian by by Adeodato Piazza Nicolai	115 116 117 118 119 121 123 124 125
Domenico Tempio	La Libraria, The Library Calabrian, 18th century English translation by Giovanna Summerfield	126
Giorgio Roberti	Sonnets from 'Na zeppa a l'occhio/A Stick in the Eye. Translated from the Romanesco by Louise Rozier and John DuVal	128
Giacomo Scotti	Io Sono la mia Casa Fin Che Vivo, I am my House as Long as I Live Il Pane, The Bread Poesia per un Vecchio Pastore del Velebit Morto surl Velebit, Poem for an Old Shepherd of the Velebit who Died on the Velebit I Miei Pesci, My Fish Ho Soltanto un Fratello, I Have Only One Brother Translated from the Italian by Adeodato Piazza Nicolai	140 142 143 145 146
Isabella Panfido	Casa di donne, House of Women Translated from the Italian by Adeodato Piazza Nicolai	148
Laila Wadia	Chicken Curry Translated from the Italian by Monica Hanna	150
Christiana de Caldas Brito	I, Fingertip 5,423 Translated from the Italian by Giovanna Bellesia and Victoria Offredi Poletto	158
Kossi Komla-Ebri	Selections from Ethnocollisions: Daily Embarassments in Black and White Translated from the Italian by Anna Strowe	162
Elena Benellis	Migrant Voices in Contemporary Italy: In Search of Hospitality	165
Paolo di Stefano	Cannibal Dialects Translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel	177
Laura di Pofi	Standard Italian or Dialect? When, Where, Why? Translated from the Italian by Lydia Miranda Oram	181
Five African Poets: Ana Maria Andrino Botelho, Teodoro Ndjock Ngana, Chidi Uzoma, Ribka Sibatu, Brhan	Translated from the Italian by Chad Davidson and Marella Feltrin-Morris	191 197 202 208 213
Jing Jing Huang	La Mia Patria, My Homeland Translated from the Italian by Toshiya Kamei	218
Ghità	The Ball Translated from the Italian by Susan Leigh Connors	220
Elena Gianni Belotti	Suspicions Translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel	223
Paola Ferrario	Italian Pictures	228
Alessandra di Maio	A Poetics of Passage: the Prose of Ubax Cristina Ali Farah	241
Alessandra di Maio	An Interview with Ubax Cristina Ali Farah Translated from the Italian by Lydia Miranda Oram followed by the original Italian	248
Ubax Cristina Ali Farah: Three Stories	Entirely Translated from the Italian by Alessandra Di Maio Punt Rap Translated from the Italian by Giovanna Bellesia and Victoria Offredi Poletto Little Mother Translated from the Italian by Giovanna Bellesia and Victoria Offredi Poletto	269 276 281
Giovanna Summerfield	Gli Aracini di Montalbano: More than a Sicilian Culinary Note	286
Monica Hanna	Review of Amara Lakhous Sonctro di Civilta per un Ascensore a Piazza Vittorio	292
Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto	Another Country In My Eyes. Italian Cinema on African Immigration	294
Claudia Esposito	Of Monuments and Documents	302
Adam Sorkin	Review of Ileana Màlàcioiu, After the Raising of Lazarus	308
Ross Benjamin	Review of Peter Altenberg, Extracts from Life	311

Errata to Metamorphoses 13.2	Three old French Ballettes Edited and translated by Samuel N. Rosenberg and Eglal Doss-Quinby	313

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