table of contents

Spring 2021 issue

table of contents

Editor's Note

by Heta Patel

each day the sun slits the throat of its former self [chaque jour le soleil égorge son spectre]

written by Amina Saïd
translated from French by Ashley Sniffen

A Chain Verse [连环诗: 赏花归去]

written by Su Shi
translated from Chinese by Gil Lehmann; Jacey Chang; Yehudith Dashevsky

Shapes in Sleep: Eight Poems [Schlafgestalten: acht Gedichte]

written by Paul Celan
translated from German by David Ting

Come [Ven]

written by Cristina Peri Rossi
translated from Spanish by Elizabeth Rose

Choose [ إختاري ]

written by Nizar Qabbani
translated from Arabic by Leah Baxter

Listen! [Послушайте!]

written by Vladimir Mayakovsky
translated from Russian by Ryan Hardy

Four Poems [Cuatro poemas]

written by Tamara Grosso
translated from Spanish by Claudia Nuñez de Ibieta

Winter []

written by Kobayashi Issa
translated from Japanese by Vanessa Hu

The Sand and the Angel [La sabbia e l’angelo]

written by Margherita Guidacci
translated from Italian by Quinn Gruber

To a Black Dancer [A une danseuse noire]

written by David Diop
translated from French by Samantha DeStefano

Onlooker [瞭望者]

written by Yan An
translated from Chinese by Chen Du; Xisheng Chen

The Butterfly — June 4th, 1942 [Der Schmetterling — 4. Juni 1942]

written by Pavel Friedmann
translated from German by Karina Carreras

Verb [Verbo]

written by Pablo Neruda
translated from Spanish by Heta Patel

Two Poems by Qasmūna bint Ismā‘il [Two Poems by Qasmūna bint Ismāʿil]

written by Qasmūna bint Ismā‘il
translated from Arabic by Maria Dahvana Headley

From what mistake [어떤 과오로부터]

written by Kim Soon Mi
translated from Korean by Nadia Park

Like An Illusion, Poetry [환영처럼 시가]

written by Kim Soon Mi
translated from Korean by Nadia Park

XXV. [XXV.]

written by Osip Mandelstam
translated from Russian by Elizabeth Balabayev

The City [Byen]

written by Sigbjørn Obstfelder
translated from Norwegian by Jordan Barger

Epitaph For When I Die [Epitaphe quand je mourrai]

written by Mariama Ndiaye
translated from French by Donnisa Edmonds

Women [Femmes]

written by Mariama Ndiaye
translated from French by Donnisa Edmonds

Wild Grass [《野草》题辞 ]

written by Lu Xun
translated from Chinese by Chardonnay Needler

Eclipse [Eclipse]

written by Carlos de Assumpção
translated from Portuguese by Pedro Lino

Transfigured Night [Verklärte Nacht]

written by Richard Dehmel
translated from German by Jonathan Iwry

Declines of the monologue [Declinaciones del monólogo]

written by Eunice Odio
translated from Spanish by Couloir Hanson

A Letter of Menakhem-Mendl [מכתב של מנחם-מנדל]

written by Nathan Alterman
translated from Hebrew by Dan Ben-Amos

I want to live with you [Я бы хотела жить с Вами]

written by Marina Tsvetaeva
translated from Russian by Wenhan Zhang

Some Later Day [먼 후일]

written by Kim Sowol
translated from Korean by Younghoon Jeong; Saagar Asnani

Maybe it's clarity [Forse la trasparenza]

written by Filippo Vignali
translated from Italian by Giulia Rupi; John Sherer

Can we keep quiet [Riusciamo a fare silenzio]

written by Filippo Vignali
translated from Italian by Giulia Rupi; John Sherer

I see my father crying [Vedo mio padre piangere]

written by Filippo Vignali
translated from Italian by Giulia Rupi; John Sherer

Millibars of the storm [Millibars de l’orage]

written by Aimé Césaire
translated from French by Sue Jia

If Heritage Were Called Hither-Air [Wenn Die Herkunft Herluft Hiesse]

written by Marica Bodrožić
translated from German by Qingyang Zhou

The Greatest Ink [La mejor tinta]

written by Armando Valladares
translated from Spanish by Margaret Lawlace

Lilies [Krinovi]

written by Mak Dizdar
translated from Bosnian by Emma Arsekin

Eternity [L’Éternité]

written by Arthur Rimbaud
translated from French by Keshav Sharma

Romance of the moon and the child [Romance de la luna, luna.]

written by Federico García Lorca
translated from Spanish by Darío Goldgel Carballo

Diary of the Lockdown Lifted [开封日记]

written by Zhang Zhihao
translated from by DoubleSpeak Staff; Couloir Hanson; Quinn Gruber; Chardonnay Needler; Ryan Hardy; Heta Patel