Summer 2013

Méira Cook

Beloved, again

Don Domanski

Bardo

Green Bird

Patricia Fargnoli

Aubade I

The Letter

Wounded Clown, 1939

Sue Goyette

Dance Rehearsal: Middle Age

medicate

on meeting Cy Twombly’s art the day before he died

Alec Hershman

Popular History

Thanksgiving

Dorianne Laux

Empire

Laura McKee

A Skeleton, A Dawn

Jean-Paul Pecqueur

An Alternate History of Rock & Roll

The Natural World

Winter

Emilia Phillips

Diaspora

Mourner with Cowl, Hands in His Sleeves

Rebecca Reynolds

Is and Is Not

Stitches

Victor David Sandiego

Incrimination

The madmen among us

Margot Schilpp

The de Havilland Comets

Lee Sharkey

In the Capital of a Small Republic

Wooden Synagogue

Betsy Sholl

Famine

Meenala, County Donegal

David Shumate

A Good Idea

The Soldier’s Hundredth Birthday Cake

Maxim Amelin

TRANSLATED BY Derek Mong
AND Anne O. Fisher

On the Acquisition of a Volume of V.I. Maikov’s Works and Translations

“Where Burdock and Nettles”

André du Bouchet

TRANSLATED BY Hoyt Rogers

Translator’s Note

Guan Hanqing

TRANSLATED BY David Lunde

Sadness at Parting

Vénus Khoury-Ghata

TRANSLATED BY Marilyn Hacker

[ligne droit la ville vue par cœur] /
[A straight line the city seen by heart]

[Platane loqueteux plus dur à chasser…] / [Ragged plane-tree harder to drive away…]

[Dormait sur sa propre épaule] /
[Slept leaning on her own shoulder]

Patrice de La Tour du Pin

TRANSLATED BY Jennifer Grotz

Psaume 13 / Psalm 13

Psaume 88 / Psalm 88

Psaume 90 / Psalm 90

Osip Mandelshtam

TRANSLATED BY Alistair Noon

Impressionism

Untitled (As if we’d seen the sun into the ground)

Untitled (Our hostess had time to say a prayer…)

Márgara Russotto

TRANSLATED BY Peter Kahn

Translator’s Note

Paul Verlaine

TRANSLATED BY David Lunde

L’angoisse / Anguish

Femme et chatte / Woman and Cat

Wei An

TRANSLATED BY Thomas Moran

Introduction

Zhong Sicheng

TRANSLATED BY David Lunde

Sad Song for Spring

Victoria Best

Simone de Beauvoir: The Courage to Love Differently

Wilful Blindness: The Marriage of André and Madeleine Gide

Paul Crenshaw

My Possum Problem,
and How it Finally Ended

The Night Before Christmas

Sari Fordham

Dividing Up the World Between Us

Geoffrey Heptonstall

The Attendant Prince

Morris Rossabi

Baritone in the Mongolian Steppes

Cécile Barlier

A Gypsy’s Book of Revelation

Robert Vrbnjak

TRANSLATED FROM THE CROATIAN
BY Dario Abram

The Monument to the Unknown Buyer

Margaret Garrett

Paintings, 2005-2012

Walter Luttenberger

Cityside

Lakeside

Deloss Brown

The Play is the Stage and the World: Theater Director and Playwright Deloss Brown

Mark Franko

Martha Graham: In Love and War — Dance Historian, Choreographer and Dancer Mark Franko

Clare Harris

Conversing with Clare Harris, Author of
The Museum on the Roof of the World

Vénus Khoury-Ghata

Courir de ville en ville et de pays en pays : Vénus Khoury-Ghata, écrivain français / Running from City to City, Country to Country: French Writer Vénus Khoury-Ghata

Thersa Matsuura

Writing from Yaizu, Japan — Fiction Writer Thersa Matsuura

Tedi López Mills

Poetry as the Site of a Collision — Mexican Poet Tedi López Mills

Darcey Steinke

Only Through Unknowing: Darcey Steinke on Fiction, Divinity, Spirituality and Beyond

Bernard Uzan

Is There a Definition for Opera — Opera Director Bernard Uzan

Callista Buchen

Poetry: Imagination, Experience, and Knowledge — Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems
BY Ursula K. Le Guin

Joseph Hutchison

Poetry: A Hermetic Conversation: Watchword BY Pura López-Colomé

Paul Kahn

Art: The Mysterious Museum of Mongolia — Buddha in the Yurt: Buddhist Art from Mongolia EDITED BY Carmen Meinert

Molly Sutton Kiefer

Poetry: Dualities and Regret in Water Puppets BY Quan Barry

Éireann Lorsung

Poetry: The Restlessness of an Order: The Alphabet Not Unlike the World BY Katrina Vandenberg

Nick J. Sciullo

Nonfiction: Memory of a Racist Past — Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town BY Willie Morris

William T. Walker

Nonfiction: Michael Gorra and Peter Brooks: More About Henry James