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Vol. 23

Conjunctions:23

New World Writing

Fall 1994
Edited by Bradford Morrow

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Contents

Olga Sedakova
Translated by Andrew Wachtel

Chinese Travelogue

Abd al-Hakim Qasim
Translated by Peter Theroux

From Al-Mahdi

Yang Lian
Translated by Brian Holton

Five Poems

Claudio Magris
Translated by Lawrence Venuti
Afterword by Paul West

In the Woods of Nevoso

Araki Yasusada, Ozaki Kusatao, Akutagawa Fusei
Translated by Tosa Motokiyu, Ojiu Norinaga, Okura Kyojin

Poems and Rengas

Coral Bracho
Translated by Forrest Gander

Three Poems

Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Translated by Andrew McCord

Five Beirut Poems

Nuruddin Farah
Afterword by C. D. Wright

From Secrets

Harold Schimmel
Translated by Peter Cole

From Island to Island

Carlos Germán Belli
Translated by Rose Passalacqua

Variations for My Brother Alfonso

Jean Echenoz
Translated by Mark Polizzotti

From Lac

Bei Dao
Translated by David Hinton

Five Poems

Joachim Sartorius
Translated by Sibylle Schlesier, Nathaniel Tarn, Rosmarie Waldrop

Six Poems

Nina Iskrenko
Translated by Forrest Gander, Joy Dworkin

Special Troikas

Juan Goytisolo
Translated by Peter Bush

From The Marx Family Saga

Can Xue
Translated by Jian Zhang, Ronald R. Janssen

Two Stories

Eduardo Galeano
Illustrations by José Francisco Borges
Translated by Mark Fried

From Walking Words

Anne-Marie Albiach, Charles Bernstein

Travail Vertical et Blanc and Work Vertical and Blank

Ishihara Yoshirō
Translated by Hiroaki Sato

Seven Poems

Peter Cole
Afterword by Eli Gottlieb

From Speech’s Hedge Where the Honey

Paola Capriolo
Translated by Lawrence Venuti

The Blue Dove

Botho Strauss
Translated by John Zilcosky

Pairs, Passersby

Semezdin Mehmedinović
Translated by Ammiel Alcalay

Five Prose Poems

Pascalle Monnier
Translated by John Ashbery

Two Poems

John Tranter

The Howling Twins (with an afterword by the author)

J. Rodolfo Wilcock
Translated by Lawrence Venuti

From The Babel of Iconoclasts

Friederike Mayröcker
Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop

Table of the Matter, or, The Completely Lost Letters of Frédéric Chopin to His Friend Titus Wojciechowski