Volume 5, no. 1
Philip Fried
Introduction
Bronislaw Maj
Translated by Daniel Bourne
“On her way out this morning, she left”
“A September afternoon, I inhale”
“Life swells to twice, three times its normal size”
“One of the last leaves to break loose from the maple”
“Evening, the Kraków train station, three gypsy”
Thomas C. Carlson and Vasile Poenaru
Translations of Romanian Poems
Introduction
Mircea Cărtărescu
Georgic III
Marius Robescu
Time
Ana Blandiana
So Cold
The Soul
A.E. Baconsky
Prophetic Anatomy
Imre Oravecz
Translated by Bruce Berlind with Mária Korösy
My Time’s Running Out
For Quite Some Time
Glyn Maxwell
Quietly Now
Peter Redgrove
The Small Earthquake
More Than Meets the Eye
Blackthorn Winter
True Wasp
Carcass and Balsam
Mistress Shivers
Penelope Shuttle
Moon Without End
Sieve
John
After-Life
A.R. Ammons
Cracking a Few Hundred Million Years
Colleen J. McElroy
What the Jackrabbits Know
Main Exhibit Hall
A Skadarlija Walk in Three-Quarter Time
Christopher Bursk
Santa Lucia
Let This Cup Pass from Me
The Dandelion
Robert Dassanowsky-Harris
Three Letters Not Written, 1926
Judson Jerome
For Marty, After 15,000 Days and Nights
from Job: The Voice Out of the Whirlwind
Stephen Harcourt Haven
Light on the Sound
Centennial
Norma McLain Stoop
Harmony
Ballad of the Distant Cliff
D. Nurkse
1956: The Horizon
Late Spring in a Small City
The High Gondola
Peggy Guiton
Review of Selected Poems, by Philippe Jaccottet
Contributors’ Notes