From this Issue
Poem
Translated By Reginald Gibbons
What’s left of my battles and my turmoil
is in my seaside cabin: this roiling air.
And yet it’s what’s outside that makes me shiver.
Not the ocean coldness — something heavier.
Hot black tea might help — it revives.
Two kinds of glass are at hand for my...
is in my seaside cabin: this roiling air.
And yet it’s what’s outside that makes me shiver.
Not the ocean coldness — something heavier.
Hot black tea might help — it revives.
Two kinds of glass are at hand for my...
Poem
Translated By John William Narins
Mr. President! The monsoon season is approaching.
This raises the question: What steps are planned
to ensure the timely gathering of the harvest
and to prevent farms from being inundated
along the floodplains of the Amazon river?
Mr. President! I just wanted to express how...
This raises the question: What steps are planned
to ensure the timely gathering of the harvest
and to prevent farms from being inundated
along the floodplains of the Amazon river?
Mr. President! I just wanted to express how...
Table of Contents
POEMS
- Ilya Kutik
- Reginald Gibbons, Ilya Kutik
- Lev Oborin
- John William Narins
- Dafydd ap Gwilym
- Gwyneth Lewis
- Bertolt Brecht
- Tom Kuhn
- Shuzo Takiguchi
- Mary Jo Bang, Yuki Tanaka
- Liu Xia
- Ming Di
- Jerzy Ficowski
- Jennifer Grotz
- Fanny Howe
- Larry Levis
- David St. John
- Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
- Katherine M. Hedeen
- Yves Bonnefoy
- Mary Ann Caws
- Ko Un
- Suji Kwock Kim
- 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
- David Wheatley
- Rosanna Warren
- Grigori Dashevsky
- Valzhyna Mort
- Seán Ó Coileáin
- Tony Hoagland
- Abraham Sutzkever
- Zackary Sholem Berger
- Maia Evrona
comment
- Geoffrey Brock
- Gwyneth Lewis
- James Longenbach
CONTRIBUTORS
- Mary Jo Bang
- Zackary Sholem Berger
- Yves Bonnefoy
- Bertolt Brecht
- Geoffrey Brock
- Mary Ann Caws
- Grigori Dashevsky
- Ming Di
- Maia Evrona
- Jerzy Ficowski
- Reginald Gibbons
- Jennifer Grotz
- Dafydd ap Gwilym
- Katherine M. Hedeen
- Tony Hoagland
- Fanny Howe
- Suji Kwock Kim
- Tom Kuhn
- Ilya Kutik
- Larry Levis
- Gwyneth Lewis
- James Longenbach
- Valzhyna Mort
- John William Narins
- Lev Oborin
- Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
- Matthew Rohrer
- David St. John
- Abraham Sutzkever
- Shuzo Takiguchi
- Yuki Tanaka
- Ko Un
- Rosanna Warren
- David Wheatley
- Liu Xia
- Seán Ó Coileáin
- Seán Ó Ríordáin
