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Issue 1
Table of Contents
Titles with the country flag of the poet
link to sample poems.

Hwang Ji-Woo / Won-Chung Kim & Christopher Merrill (Korean)
Sitting Cross-legged and Thinking about the World Outside
History
Fernando Sánchez Sorondo / Idra Novey (Spanish)
Ceremony in a Basilica
Amaru / Andrew Schelling (Sanskrit)
Amarusataka 17
Amarusataka 20
Amarusataka 47
Radmila Lazic / Charles Simic (Serbian)
I´m an Old-Fashioned Girl
Franco Loi / Giuliana (Milanese)
Chamedes from Secundum Lüna
Oktay Rifat / Talat Halman (Turkish)
Conflict
Abdellatif Laâbi / Gordon Hadfield & Nancy Hadfieldfrom (French)
Fragments of a forgotten genesis
Paul Celan / Pierre Jorisfrom (German)
Cycle III of Lightduress
Meng Hao-jan / David Hinton (Chinese)
At Lumen-Empty Monastery...
Sent to Ch'ao, the Palace Reviser
Climbing Long-View Mountain's Highest Peak
Tomasz Rózycki / Jacek Gutorow (Polish)
The Dead Sea
Hédi Kaddour / Marilyn Hacker (French)
The Question
Goddess of Spring
The Scarab Bookshop
Francisco de Quevedo / Pamela Greenberg (Spanish)
He Teaches How to Die Beforehand
Li Po / J. P. Seaton (Chinese)
Two Too Free Translations in Honor of Li Po
Karel Hlavácek / Josef Horácek & Lara Glenum (Czech)
A Vengeful Cantilena
Carlito Azevedo / Flávia Rocha (Portuguese)
Black cow on a pink ground
The Book of Travel

Kirmen Uribe / Elizabeth Macklin

(Basque)
No Saying
Georg Trakl / Burton Raffel (German)
De Profundis
Lament
Nuala Ní Dhomnhaill / Paul Muldoon (Irish)
The Task
Pablo Neruda / Clayton Eshleman (Basque)
Sappho / Maureen N. McLane (Ancient Greek)
After Sappho, Fragments
Léopold Sédar Senghor / Kristen Andersen (French)
Fidelity
Joaquim de Sousândrade / Odile Cisnerosfrom (Portuguese)
The Wall Street Inferno
Akutagawa RyŸnosuke / Sean Price (Japanese)
Nine Haiku
Sandra Moussempès / Kristin Prevallet (French)
Tomaž Šalamun / Joshua Beckman & Tomaž Šalamun (Slovenian)
Little Mushrooms
Yüan Mei / J. P. Seaton (Chinese)
Finished with a parting poem for Mr. Li
Chang-chou
Meng-t'ing Asked about Plum Blossoms, and I Answered
Arthur Rimbaud / Wyatt Mason (French)
On the Subject of Flowers: Remarks, Addressed to the Poet
Takarabe Toriko / Hiroaki Sato (Japanese)
Talk of Horses
Constantin Acosmei / Gene Tanta (Romanian)
Male Dicat
Lea Goldberg / Peter Cole (Hebrew)
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With This Night
Pura López-Colomé / Jason Stumpf (Spanish)
Omens
Benilda Santos / José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes (Filipino)
What I Told You
Anonymous / C. M. Shipman (Scottish Gaelic)
Elegy for Gregor MacGregor of Glenstrae
Jean-Michel Espitallier / Olivier Brossard & Lisa Lubasch (French)
Then Koch reported on the state of the country (ol' martial tune)
Volker Braun / Cecilia Rohrer & Matthew Rohrer (German)
Paradise
The Zig Zag Bridge
The Wall at Stalin Avenue

Ülkü Tamer / Talat Halman

(Turkish)
The Duel
Henri Michaux / Mary Ann Caws & Patricia Terry (French)
Attacking the mountain
Alphabet
Sahir Ludhyanvi / Hamida Banu Chopra, Zack Rogow, & Nasreen G. Chopra (Urdu)
Taj Mahal
Lâm Thfl MŒ Dfi / Martha Collins & Thuy Dinh (Vietnamese)
Custard Apple Tree
Nurit Zarhi / Tsipi Keller (Hebrew)
untitled ("For they are at the center of my life")
Myriam Moscona / Jen Hofer (Spanish)
from Section I of Ivory Black
Francis Picabia / Jeffrey Jullich (French)
A Watch Cap
García Casado / Chris Michalskibar (Spanish)
code
use
age of the automobile (reprise)
Tone Škrjanec / Ana Jelnikar (Slovenian)
Calm
Calla Lilies
Dino Campana / Jenny Boully (Italian)
Slit
André Breton / Clayton Eshleman (French)
A Man and a Woman Absolutely White
Angel Crespo / Steven J. Stewart (Spanish)
Impatience
Renunciations
Catullus / Rick Snyder (Latin)
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32
48
Abe Hinako / Hiroaki Sato (Japanese)
Seashore
Michel Deguy / Wilson Baldridge (French)
Of Sky and of Tungsten
Anteus
Nazim Hikmet / Talat Halman (Turkish)
Letter to My Wife
Friedrich Hölderlin / Sam Stark (German)
Recess
Paul Morand / Ron Padgett & Bill Zavatsky (French)
New Orleans
Mohave Desert
Morten Søndergaard / John Irons (Danish)
Landscapes
Homophonic Section
Contributors' Notes

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