AGNI 48

AGNI 48

The Translation Issue: Beowulf by Seamus Heaney, Euripides by Tom Sleigh, Virgil by David Ferry, Aeschylus by Alan Shapiro, Oleh Lysheha by herself and James Brasfield (for which they won the 2000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; issue includes drafts of the translation). Fiction: Vladimir Makanin by Mary Ann Szporluk, Yuri Andrukhovych by Michael Naydan, Li Xiao by Zhu Hong. Nonfiction: Vicki Lawrence on Vergangenheitsbewältigung.

Editor’s NoteFictionEssaysPoetryConversationsReviews

Editor’s Note

Shadowboxing: On Not Being Irish in Boston
by Askold Melnyczuk

Fiction

from Perversion: The Testament of Antonio Del Campo
by Yuri Andrukhovych
Translated from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan
Pot Luck
by Ádám Bodor
Translated from the Hungarian by Andrea Berger
The Ride
by Ádám Bodor
Translated from the Hungarian by Andrea Berger
The Woodsman Has a Visitor
by Ádám Bodor
Translated from the Hungarian by Andrea Berger
The Suicide of the Pupil Mueller
by Alfred Lichtenstein
Translated from the German by Sheldon A. Gilman and Robert Levine
Torrent River
by Vladimir Makanin
Translated from the Russian by Mary Ann Szporluk
Ah, Jamaica!
by Stephan Sanders
Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer
Blimunda
by Ilan Stavans
Translated from the Spanish by Harry Morales
Tenants
by Federigo Tozzi
Translated from the Italian by Linda Lappin
Anecdotes from the Office
by Li Xiao
Translated from the Chinese by Zhu Hong

Essays

A Note on Ádám Bodor’s Fiction
by Andrea Berger
A Note on Oleh Lysheha
by James Brasfield
A Strange Kind of Exile—Hope and Despair in Ivan Klima
by Pete Hausler
The Dream of a Castle
by Thomas E. Kennedy
Vergangenheitsbewaltigung
by Vicki Lawrence
Prefatory Note on Andrukhovych’s “Testament”
by Michael M. Naydan
Memory and Literature
by Ilan Stavans

Poetry

from The Agamemnon
by Aeschylus
Translated from the ancient Greek by Alan Shapiro
Creation
by Gottfried Benn
Translated from the German by Teresa Iverson
Translation of Oleh Lysheha
by James Brasfield
To Giovanni da Pistoia When the Author was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel
by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Translated from the Italian by Gail Mazur
A Barren Orange Tree
by Stephen Burt
The Alders
by Stephen Burt
Remember, Body . . .
by Constantine Cavafy
Translated from the Greek by Theoharis C. Theoharis
Since Nine O’Clock
by Constantine Cavafy
Translated from the Greek by Theoharis C. Theoharis
The Tobacco Shop Window
by Constantine Cavafy
Translated from the Greek by Theoharis C. Theoharis
The Syllable Pain
by Paul Celan
Translated from the German by Lynn Dubinsky and Matthais Rosenthal
Ballad
by Nicolae Dabija
Translated from the Romanian by John Flynn
Maturity
by Marek Danielkiewicz
Translated from the Polish by Maria Rewakowicz
“Whenever I see my friends”
by Marek Danielkiewicz
Translated from the Polish by Maria Rewakowicz
Yonder
by Herman de Coninck
Translated from the Flemish by Kurt Brown and Laure-Anne Bosselaar
from Les Amours
by Pierre de Ronsard
Translated from the French by Peter Campion
from The Body Object: The Table, The Telephone
by Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
Genius Loci
by Luciano Erba
Translated from the Italian by Ann Snodgrass
On Walking
by Luciano Erba
Translated from the Italian by Ann Snodgrass
from Heracles: To the Muses
by Euripides
Translated from the ancient Greek by Tom Sleigh
...A mouth contorted in pain
by Moisei Fishbein
Translated from the Ukrainian by J. Kates and Bohdan Rubchak
I was killed in nineteen hundred sixteen
by Moisei Fishbein
Translated from the Ukrainian by J. Kates and Bohdan Rubchak
In Memory of Paul Celan
by Moisei Fishbein
Translated from the Ukrainian by J. Kates and Bohdan Rubchak
from Beowulf: Grendel Attacks Hrothgar’s Hall
by Seamus Heaney
Swan
by Oleh Lysheha
Translated from the Ukrainian by Oleh Lysheha and James Brasfield
126
by Osip Mandelstam
Translated from the Russian by Joan Aleshire
78
by Osip Mandelstam
Translated from the Russian by Joan Aleshire
Insomnia at Daybreak
by Gail Mazur
The Imaginary Jungle
by Debarati Mitra
Translated from the Bengali by Paramita Banerjee and Carolyne Wright
Oblique Rain
by Fernando Pessoa
Translated from the Portuguese by Isabel Pinto Franco
A Square with a Well (I)
by Gábor Schein
Translated from the Russian by Gábor Schein
A Square with a Well (II)
by Gábor Schein
Translated from the Russian by Gábor Schein
Coronation
by Gábor Schein
Translated from the Russian by Gábor Schein
Tamed Dolphins
by Gábor Schein
Translated from the Russian by Gábor Schein
Fall on Nantucket Island (rendered from the Russian by the author)
by Maxim D. Shrayer
Translated by Maxim D. Shrayer
From the Diary of a Harlequin
by Liliana Ursu
Translated from the Romanian by Liliana Ursu, Tess Gallagher, and Valerie Duff
Photographs of Mothers and Babies
by Liliana Ursu
Translated from the Romanian by Liliana Ursu, Tess Gallagher, and Valerie Duff
from Thirteen Sonnets for a Lost Lover: Sonnet 9, The Serpent Sonnet
by Maria Van Daalen
Translated from the Dutch by Maria Van Daalen
from The Eclogues: First and Ninth Eclogues
by Virgil
Translated from the Latin by David Ferry
April 30, 1994 (transtled from the Polish by William Martin)
by Marcin Wietlicki
Translated by William Martin
M—Between Ten at Night and Four in the Morning (transtled from the Polish by William Martin)
by Marcin Wietlicki
Translated by William Martin
The Fence
by Saadi Youssef
Translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
The Porcupine
by Saadi Youssef
Translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
Null [1]
by Paul Éluard
Translated from the French by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
Null [2]
by Paul Éluard
Translated from the French by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
The Curse
by Paul Éluard
Translated from the French by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
Bambi
by Tomaž Šalamun
Translated from the Slovenian by Tomaž Šalamun and Matthew Rohrer

Conversations

An Interview with Peter Nadas
by Eva-Marie Kallen
Translated from the German by Michael Blumenthal

Reviews

I Happen to Like New York
by Jim Behrle
Reawakening a Literary Giant: Michel Tournier
by Jean Charbonneau
Stretch Your Weary Legs Out Under This Tree
by Christopher Davis
Brodsky Interviewed
by Drew Swinger
Keep Hunger in Mind
by Reetika Vazirani
Keelhauledheart
by Andrew Zawacki