Table of Contents: April 2009

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Cover art: Ana Benaroya, "Crazy Head," 2008.

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AUTHOR TITLE
Hester Knibbe Lava and Sand
Last Night
Chika Sagawa Backside
Ramón Cote Baraibar Coal Deliveryman
Franco Fortini Sonnet of the Seven Chinese
Quirinus Kuhlmann Love-Kiss XLI
Yoel Hoffmann from Curriculum Vitae
Sergei Gandlevskii Stanzas
Dahlia Ravikovitch The Love of an Orange
The Second Trying
Yang Lian Island (#2)
Gabriel & Marcel Piqueray A Pedal-Pusher Said to Me
Göran Sonnevi from Mozart’s Third Brain
Günter Eich Inventory
Osip Mandelstam “Yet to die. Unalone still.”
“Alone I stare into the frost’s white face”
Mantinadologoi Mantinades
Álvaro de Campos “Ah Margarida”
“So many gods!”
Jules Supervielle Prophecy
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib “No, I wasn’t meant to love and be loved”
Patrick Dubost What I Know
Pura López-Colomé Echo
Salwa Al-Neimi Dracula
Diakwain The Broken String
Víctor Terán The north wind whips
Biddy Jenkinson The Chinese Mother’s Lullaby
Friedrich Hölderlin from In Lovely Blue
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Franz Wright Letter to the Editor
Averill Curdy Averill Curdy Responds
Joshua Weiner Letter to the Editor
Joseph Dorazio Letter to the Editor
Michael Salcman Letter to the Editor
Stephen Sandy Letter to the Editor
Neal Whitman Letter to the Editor
Kathleen Thomas Letter to the Editor
Edward Vogel Letter to the Editor