Inscapes and crossings. Michael Mazur’s cover rendering of Dantean passage sets the tone for an issue rich with transformative broodings and hard-won exclamations. Poetry by Rita Dove, Robert Pinsky, Richard Kenney, Alan Williamson, and many others resonates against powerful translations of Vasyl Makhno, Tomas Venclova, René Char, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Nelly Sachs. Stories by Charles Haverty, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Anis Shivani, and Gary Amdahl seem to call to nuanced meditations by Lia Purpura, Brian Christian, and Nadia Gregor. This is a partial listing, to be sure. The issue also features a first-ever DVD—Robert Gardner’s documentary celebration of our portfolio artist Michael Mazur at work on his print illustrations of Robert Pinsky’s striking translations of the Italian master.

Editor

Sven Birkerts

Founding Editor

Askold Melnyczuk

Senior Editor

William Pierce

Sr. Fiction Editor

William Giraldi

Fiction Editors

Jessica Keener

William Charles Delman

Jessica Keener, William Charles Delman

Poetry Editors

Lynne Potts

Jay Deshpande

Lynne Potts, Jay Deshpande

Asst. Poetry Editor

Sumita Chakraborty

Advisory Board

Leslie Epstein

Robert Pinsky

Derek Walcott

Rosanna Warren

Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Rosanna Warren

Editorial Assistants

Heather Hughes

S. A. Spieller

Sean A. Higgins

Susan Muensterman

Alexandra Goldstein

Beth Romano

Heather Hughes, S. A. Spieller, Sean A. Higgins, Susan Muensterman, Alexandra Goldstein, Beth Romano

Contributing Editors

Lucie Brock-Broido

John J. Clayton

William Corbett

Stuart Dischell

Sharon Dunn, ed. emerita

Thomas Sayers Ellis

Marie Howe

Diane Der-Hovanessian

Ha Jin

Alex Johnson

Susan Johnson

Fred Marchant

Fiona McCrae

Gail Mazur

Joe Osterhaus

Dzvinia Orlowsky

Liam Rector (1949-2007)

George Scialabba

Tom Sleigh

Sue Standing

Oksana Zabuzhko

Lucie Brock-Broido, John J. Clayton, William Corbett, Stuart Dischell, Sharon Dunn, ed. emerita, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Marie Howe, Diane Der-Hovanessian, Ha Jin, Alex Johnson, Susan Johnson, Fred Marchant, Fiona McCrae, Gail Mazur, Joe Osterhaus, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Liam Rector (1949-2007), George Scialabba, Tom Sleigh, Sue Standing, Oksana Zabuzhko