Volume LXI Number 4, Winter 2009
Translation Issue

essays

Rivers, Bells, Nostalgia
jean starobinski, trans. Richard Pevear

Song, Rain, Snow: Translating the Poetry of Yves Bonnefoy
emily grosholz

memoir

A Few Lines About My Life
olga sedakova, trans. Emily Grosholz with Larissa Volokhonsky

fiction

The Immortal
joachim maria machado de assis, trans. Alfred Mac Adam

Three Stories from That Didn’t Reassure the Children
alois hotschnig, trans. Tess Lewis

poetry

From The Great Snowfall; The Torches; Hopkins Forest
yves bonnefoy, trans. Emily Grosholz

The Inspection; Lament of the Old Pole
jacques rEda, trans. Andrew Shields

So Boaz Slept
victor hugo, trans. R. S. Gwynn

From Le Cid
pierre corneille, trans. Richard Wilbur

The Subway, Moscow and Other Poems
olga sedakova, trans. Emily Grosholz and Larissa Volokhonsky

Poem of the End
marina tsvetaeva, trans. Mary Jane White

Third Rome Man
dimitri v. psurtsev, trans. F. D. Reeve

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
anonymous fourteenth-century poet, trans. John Ridland

From Antigone
sophocles, trans. Ruth Fainlight and Robert J. Littman

Three Poems from the Greek
trans. Edmund Keeley

The Creation of the World and Other Poems
g. g. belli, trans. Charles Martin

Tangerines, My Boy, and Me; The Soy Mash Vendor
motomaro senge, trans. Lawrence Rogers

Chronicles

Dance
marcia b. siegel

American Ballet Theatre’s celebration of Antony Tudor

Art
karen wilkin

“Drawing Babar” at the Morgan; The Museum of Art and Design

Theatre
richard hornby

Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” at the Rose Theatre, Kingston; Sam Shepard’s “Kicking a Dead Horse” at the Almeida Theatre, London

Reviews

The Life and Times of Latin
brooke allen

“Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin,” by Nicholas Ostler

Translations for Our Moment
mark jarman

Poets as translators

Poetry and Dialectic
alfred corn

“Eternal Enemies,” by Adam Zagajewski

Literary History As Kaffeeklatsch
tess lewis

“The Delighted States,” by Adam Thirlwell

Consequences and Possibilities
susan balEe

Per Petterson, Arnaldur Indridason, Ismail Kadare, Ingo Schulze, etc.

in memoriam

Hayden Carruth (1921-2008)
david mason

notes on contributors