Table of Contents
Kirk Anderson from
SPANISH (Cuba)
Where Theres Smoke, Theres Fire:
A Cuban Tobacco Legend (Napoleón S. Padilla:
Leyenda Cubana del
tabaco: Tabaquina)
S. V. Atalla from
ARABIC (Palestine)
Spring (Liana Badr: Rabi)
Christopher Bakken and Roula
Konsolaki from MODERN GREEK
(Greece)
Cure (Titos Patrikios: Iasis)
Elizabeth Bell and John
Ross from SPANISH (Chiapas,
Mexico)
Commitments (Parents & Teachers of Tierra
y Libertad, Chiapas; Reported by Enrique Calderón A.: Compromisos
que se asumen)
James Brook from
FRENCH
Still the Two of Us (Henri Michaux: Nous deux
encore)
Josefa Devesa-Seva from
CATALAN (Valencia, Spain)
Ramona Rosbif (Isa Tròlec: Ramona Rosbif)
Robert Klein Engler from
SPANISH (Mexico)
Fireflies (José Gorostiza: Luciernagas)
Jack Foley from
FRENCH
Litanies of Satan (Charles Baudelaire: Les
litanies de Satan)
Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko
Tsumura from JAPANESE
Lightning and Shadows: Poems by Ryuichi Tamura
-Notes Regarding Lightning (Inazuma ni kansuru nooto)
-Raincoat (Reinkooto)
Stephen Haven and Wang
Shouyi from CHINESE
Cremation (Gu Cheng: Huo Zang)
Mark Herman and Ronnie
Apter from ITALIAN
Burned at the Stake (Salvadore Cammarano: Stride
la vampa from Il trovatore)
Jen Hofer from
SPANISH (Mexico)
The Double Man (Beatriz Escalante: El hombre
doble from La magia de la inmortalidad)
J. Kates from
FRENCH
Pompeii (Yvan Goll: Pompei)
L. R. Kiyama from
JAPANESE
On Seeing a Painting of Hell (Saigyo: Jigokue
o mite)
Michael Koch from
SPANISH (Mexico)
Fire Signs (Francisco Hernández, based
on woodcuts by Artemio Rodríguez)
-Aries (Aries)
-Leo (Leo)
-Sagittarius (Sagitario)
Rita Kothari from
GUJARATI (Gujarat, India)
Pyre (Raghuvir Chaudhury: Chita)
Alexis Levitin from
PORTUGESE
Passions Letter (Herberto Helder: a
carta da paixao)
Paul Losensky from
PERSIAN (Iran)
Lyric Fires of the Persian Baroque: Ghazals
-I am the ruby
(Nazem of Herat: yaqut-e kan-e mashreq-am)
-World-consuming love
(Saeb of Tabriz: nadarad eshq-e alamsuz
parva-ye)
-I have a heart
(Kalim of Kashan: deli daram k-az u delha be-suzad)
Christopher Mattison from
RUSSIAN
Samurai Daughter (Anastasiya Sergeyevna Gosteva: Doch
Samuraya)
Simon Patton from
CHINESE
Flames (Han Shaogong: Huoyan)
Norman R. Shapiro from
FRENCH
Ready! Aim! Fire! Two Vignettes by Alphonse Allais
-The Volatile Mother-in-Law or, Science to the Rescue (Scientia liberatrix
ou, La belle-mère explosible)
-The Germ of the Problem (Il ne faut faire aux microbes nulle peine,
même légère)
John Oliver Simon from
SPANISH (Peru)
Survival: Eight Stanzas of Commentary on the
Words of Buddha (Mirko Lauer: Sobre vivir: Ocho estrofas de comentario
sobre las palabras del Buda)
Marilya Veteto-Conrad from
GERMAN
Firebreak (Zehra Çirak: Feuerwehrpause)
Sasha Vlad and Zack
Rogow from ROMANIAN
Heraclitus (Gellu Naum: Heraclit from Focul
negru)
Carolyne Wright and Mohammad
Nurul Huda from BENGALI
(Bangladesh)
With Savage Fire: Poems by Nasima Sultana
-Memorial for a Sailor (Ekjan Nabiker Smrtiphalak)
-Compromise (Bosapara)