November 2014

Lise Haller Baggesen, “Entanglement Practice,” 2011

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Ilya Kutik
Lev Oborin
Dafydd Gwilym
Shuzo Takiguchi
Bertolt Brecht

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Sea Sickness

Translators’ Note: “Sea Sickness” by Ilya Kutik

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From “Translations in Bare Outline”

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Ilya Kutik
- Sea Sickness
Reginald Gibbons, Ilya Kutik
- Translators’ Note: “Sea Sickness” by Ilya Kutik
Lev Oborin
- From “Translations in Bare Outline”
John William Narins
- Translator’s Note: “Translations in Bare Outline” by Lev Oborin
Dafydd ap Gwilym
- The Wind
Gwyneth Lewis
- Translator’s Note: “The Wind” by Dafydd ap Gwilym
Bertolt Brecht
- “When I’d reported to the couple, thus”
Tom Kuhn
- Translator’s Note: “When I’d reported to the couple, thus” by Bertolt Brecht
Shuzo Takiguchi
- Joan Miró
- Yves Tanguy
- René Magritte
Mary Jo Bang, Yuki Tanaka
- Translators’ Note: Three Poems by Shuzo Takiguchi
Liu Xia
- Empty Chairs
- Transformed Creatures
Ming Di
- Translator’s Note: Two Poems by Liu Xia
Jerzy Ficowski
- August 5, 1942
Jennifer Grotz
- Translator’s Note: “August 5, 1942” by Jerzy Ficowski
Fanny Howe
- Sheets
- Author’s Note: On “Sheets,” after I.F. Annensky
Larry Levis
- François Villon on the Condition of Pity in Our Time
David St. John
- On “François Villon on the Condition of Pity in Our Time” by Larry Levis
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
- From “from a red barn”
Katherine M. Hedeen
- Translator’s Note: “from a red barn” by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
Yves Bonnefoy
- They Spoke to Me
- The Museum
Mary Ann Caws
- Translator’s Note: Two Poems by Yves Bonnefoy
Ko Un
- Ear
- Taklamakan Desert
- Asking the Way
Suji Kwock Kim
- Rice-Field Road at Dusk
- Translator’s Note: Three Poems by Ko Un
Matthew Rohrer
- Poem Written with Bashō [“The sound of the water jar”]
- Poem Written with Buson [“In a minute”]
- Poem Written with Buson [“How long and thin”]
- Poem Written with Buson [“The whole country”]
- Poem Written with Issa [“The kids fighting”]
- Poem Written with Issa [“A friend e-mails”]
- Poem Written with Issa [“In my dream”]
- Poem Written with Bashō [“A photograph”]
- Author’s Note: On Writing with Bashō, Buson, and Issa
Seán Ó Ríordáin
- Switch
David Wheatley
- Translator’s Note: “Switch” by Seán Ó Ríordáin
Rosanna Warren
- Translator’s Note: Three Poems by Max Jacob
Grigori Dashevsky
- From “Ithaca”
Valzhyna Mort
- Translator’s Note: “Ithaca” by Grigori Dashevsky
Seán Ó Coileáin
- The Ruins of Timoleague Abbey
Tony Hoagland
- Translator’s Note: “The Ruins of Timoleague Abbey” by Seán Ó Coileáin
Abraham Sutzkever
- “What potion should I give the night so she’ll always wonder?”
- What Will Stay Behind
- The Blade of Grass from Ponar
Zackary Sholem Berger
- Translator’s Note: Two Poems by Abraham Sutzkever
Maia Evrona
- Translator’s Note: “The Blade of Grass from Ponar” by Abraham Sutzkever