Table of Contents: April 2008

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Cover art: Balint Zsako, "Untitled," 2006.

AUTHOR TITLE
Håkan Sandell "Poetry rejoices..."
Your Hair of Snakes and Flowers
Yannis Ritsos The Crane Dance
Anna Akhmatova In Memoriam, July 19, 1914
Marina Tsvetaeva "Our sweet companions-sharing your bunk and your bed"
Francis Ponge The Trees Delete Themselves Inside a Fog-Sphere
Jean Follain Aesomes
Loners
Yves Bonnefoy San Biagio, at Montepulciano
Miroslav Holub Creative Writing
Ovid The Rape of Europa
Anonymous "Phoebus was gone, all gone, his journey over"
Ho Xuan Huong Wasps
Snail
Jackfruit
Floating Sweet Dumpling
Lamenting Widow
Takashi Hiraide from For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut
Imru'al-qays Mu'allaqa
Ibn Al-`Arabi Tigris Song
Baghdad Song
Waldo Williams What is it to be human?
Olav H. Hauge Up on Top
Barley Field
Anonymous Charms for Love
Giacomo Leopardi To His Lady
Marko Vesović Immortal Instant
César Vallejo Black Stone on a White Stone
Miguel
Ramón López Velarde Because of this Modest Style
Rainer Maria Rilke Day in Autumn
The Beggars
Anonymous The Song of the Birds
Annette M'Baye From the Artist's Sketchbook
Tomas Venclova In the Lake Region
Pura López-Colomé Tormented
Avot Yeshurun Memories Are a House
The Son of the Wall
Natan Zach To Put It Differently
Hafez "For years my heart inquired of me‚"