Table of Contents ZEKE BERMAN Jar and Wire (photograph) + 12 HERBERT LEIBOWITZ Editor’s Introduction « 13 Arabic Poetry ERIC ORMSBY Questions for Stones: On Classical Arabic Poetry (essay) + 18 MAHMOUD DARWISH The Phases of Anat (poem) + 40 KHIREDDINE MOURAD The Naked Woman of the River (prose poem) + 43 SALMAN MASALHA On Deserts, Wireless (poems) + 46 JOYCE KOZLOFF Knowledge: The Nile River, A.D. 150 (fresco) » 48 IMAN MERSAL I Look Around Me, It Seems That I Inherit the Dead, Things Get Away from Me, I Have a Melodious Name, To Cross Between Two Rooms (poems) +» 49 YOUSSEF RAKHA My Lover and Eyes, The Paper Boat, The Packaged Person, Hallucination (poems) + 57 GABRIEL LEVIN On Taha Muhammad Ali (introduction) + 61 Table of Contents ZEKE BERMAN Jar and Wire (photograph) + 12 HERBERT LEIBOWITZ Editor’s Introduction « 13 Arabic Poetry ERIC ORMSBY Questions for Stones: On Classical Arabic Poetry (essay) + 18 MAHMOUD DARWISH The Phases of Anat (poem) + 40 KHIREDDINE MOURAD The Naked Woman of the River (prose poem) + 43 SALMAN MASALHA On Deserts, Wireless (poems) + 46 JOYCE KOZLOFF Knowledge: The Nile River, A.D. 150 (fresco) » 48 IMAN MERSAL I Look Around Me, It Seems That I Inherit the Dead, Things Get Away from Me, I Have a Melodious Name, To Cross Between Two Rooms (poems) +» 49 YOUSSEF RAKHA My Lover and Eyes, The Paper Boat, The Packaged Person, Hallucination (poems) + 57 GABRIEL LEVIN On Taha Muhammad Ali (introduction) + 61 Table of Contents - TAHA MUHAMMAD ALI Crack in the Skull, Post-Operative Complications Following the Extraction of Memory, Thrombosis in the Veins of Petroleum, Abd El-Hadi Fights a Superpower, Warning (poems) +» 73 ABDELWAHAB MEDDEB Expanses of White (poetic prose) + 81 MUHAMMAD AL-MAGHUT The Autumn of Masks (poem) + 84 RIKKI DUCORNET from The Kosméterion (novel-in-progress) * 85 SUZANNE ALAYWAN from Provisional Sun (poems) + 94 ERIC ORMSBY Bald Adham Says His Prayers, Translucency, Jaham and His Cat, Jaham on the Difficult Beauty of the First White Hair (poems) + 96 Hebrew and Israeli Poetry BETH REISMAN The Land (painting) + 102 SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Winter with Its Ink, The Garden (poems) + 103 AHARON SHABTAI The Reason to Live Here, Times Are Bad (poems) » 105 RIVKA MIRIAM Daily Solomon Would Talk, King Solomon Who Remained in the Language of the Animals and Fowl (poems) » 107 JAY LADIN The Prince and the Paupered: Medieval Hebrew Poetry Meets the Twenty-First Century (Shmuel HaNagid) + 109 4 « Parnassus DVORA AMIR Uncle Avram (poem) + 124 ALICE ATTIE Untitled (photograph) + 125 DAVID BIESPIEL “A Final Hard Amen’: Yehuda Amichai, 1923-2000 (essay-review) * 126 DENNIS SILK Double Kasida, Channel Crossing (poems) + 136 MARSHA POMERANTZ ‘Tree (poem) + 140 LINDA ZISQUIT from The Face in the Window (poem) + 142 SALMAN MASALHA Cage (poem) + 143 Persian Poetry DICK DAVIS “Spells to Fascinate the Angel Gabriel”: On Classical Persian Poetry (essay and poems) + 146 DAVID BARBER Rumi Nation (essay) + 176 SUSAN BARRON Untitled (collage) + 210 AHMAD HAKKAK-KARIMI Speaking to the Jasmine, a Scythe in Hand: A Selection of Modern Persian Poetry (essay and poems) + 211 + YOUSSEF CHAHINE Alexandria... Why? (movie still) «+2 30 Table of Contents - STUART KLAWANS. Nine Views in a Looking Glass: Film Trilogies by Chahine, Gitai, and Kiarostami (essay) + 231 ABPAS KIAROSTAMI And Life Goes On... (movie still) + 246 je UMBERTO SABA The Ghetto ofT rieste (memoir) + 253 ALEERT GOLDBARTH This Explains His Adam and Eve (essay) * 257 ze NAOMI FISHER Untitled (Heliconia with Red Underwear) (photograph) + 267 NINA YANKOWITZ Talisman (sculpture) + 269 MAX KOZLOFF Effigy on Carey Street, Richmond, Virginia (photograph) + 271 SHARON YA’ARI Untitled (monument) (photograph) + 273 x SEAMUS HEANEY The Loose Box (poem) * 275 WILLIAM LOGAN Therapy, Fermat (poems) + 278 WILLIAM KENTRIDGE History of the Main Complaint (drawing) + 280 IAIN BAMFORTH Applied Poetry (Miroslav Holub) + 281 6 « Parnassus SEAMUS HEANEY Something to Protect (Nikolay Zabolotsky) + 308 JAY P. WHITE On the Night Train to Nizhney (poem) + 322 LORNA BIEBER Drapes/Bridge (photograph) + 323 THOMAS M. DISCH New York, New Yorker, New Yorkest (essay-review) + 324 COLETTE INEZ The Singers (poem) * 339 JOSE HIERRO E] Latid/ The Lute (poem) » 340 DOROTHEA TANNING Waverly and a Place (poem) + 350 Pacific Rim Poets SHEN CHOU Poet on a Mountain Top (painting) + 354 JOHN DERBYSHIRE All the Way to Chang-féng-sha: Some Translations of Medieval Chinese Poetry (essay-review) » 355 WILLIAM KENTRIDGE Felix in Exile (drawing) + 372 LIAO YIWU Old Dreams, Conflicts, One Dusk, To Mother (poems) * 373 JOSEPH R. ALLEN On Gu Cheng (introduction) + 379 GU CHENG from Classical Tales from the Isle of Waves (prose poems) + 380 Table of Contents + 7 JUDITH BEVERIDGE The Dice-Player (poem) + 385 SHAO WEI Square Cauldron (poem) + 387 MARILYN CHIN ‘Twenty-Five Haiku (poem) + 388 je PETER HUJAR Lotte Eisner, Paris, 1980 (photograph) + 390 ROGER SHATTUCK Nerval and Virtual Reality (essay-review) + 391 LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO Self-Deliverance by Lion, The One Theme of Which Everything Else Is a Variation (poems) * 403 CLAIRE MALROUX Couples / Couples (poem) + 406 UMBERTO SABA Ulisse /U lysses (poem) + 408 BASIL LANGTON May Swenson in her studio, MacDowell Colony, 1963 (photograph) + 410 MAY SWENSON August 19, Pad 19 (poem) + 411 MONTSERRAT ABELLO Agost 19, Bloc 19 (Catalan version) + 414 LUCIANO ERBA 19 agosto, Piattafoma 19 (Italian version) + 417 CLAIRE MALROUX 19 aodt, rampe 19 (French version) + 420 8 « Parnassus RICHARD HOWARD Banausics (commentary) « 423 LISA CORINNE DAVIS Detail from /mprinted Traits #1 (mixed media) + 425 MARY KARR Groom, Descending Theology: The Nativity, Descending Theology: The Crucifixion (poems) + 426 CARL PHILLIPS Trade, To Break, to Ride, Via Sacra (poems) + 432 WILLIAM LOGAN Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Abbreviated (essay-review) « 438 KAY RYAN The Self Is Not Portable, Reverse Drama (poems) * 478 PETER HUJAR John Heys in Lana Turner's Gown, 1983 (photograph) + 480 TIMOTHY LIU Consolation (poem) » 481 CARL DENNIS Masons, Dream Theory (poems) + 482 MARJORIE PERLOFF Reading Gass Reading Rilke (essay-review) + 486 PAUL CELAN Pau, Spater/ Pau, Later, Die Wahrhe/ iTrutth , Das Ausgeschachtete Herz /T he Excavated Heart, Stille /S ilence, Draussen /W ithout (poems) +» 508 JUAN CARLOS GALEANO Cometas / Kites, Mesa/ Table (poems) » 514 HELENE J. F. DE AGUILAR One Hundred Years of Company: Remarks on Latin American Poetry (Marjorie Agosin, Oscar Hahn, Enrique Lihn) + 518 Table of Contents - JESPER SVENBRO Intimism, Hermes boukédlos (poems) + 536 DAVID SOLWAY On Bartholomew (introduction) + 539 DAVID SOLWAY Bartholomew the Englishman on Fleas, Bartholomew the Englishman on the Cicada (poems) + 540 ZEKE BERMAN Lac l’orange (photograph) + 542 CARMINE STARNINO Cornage (poem) + 543 SANDOR KANYADI Tomegsir-vers / Mass Grave Song (poem) « 552 GYORGYI VOROS Voluntary Exile (Attila Jozsef) + 554 NIKOLAI KANTCHEV So That Life Will Be in Balance (poem) + 566 ELIZABETH FRANK Biting into Glass (Osip Mandelstam) +» 567 CHRIS FORHAN The Hard Sciences (poem) + 585 JULIANNE BUCHSBAUM Clouds Swell Out (poem) +» 587 GARY GACH AND JAY LADIN An Exchange + 589 Contributors * 591 Artwork Credits « 601 Acknowledgements + 603 10 © Parnassus Index to Volumes 1—24:2 + 604 Cover: HABIB ALLAH “Mantig al-tair” (“The Language of the Birds”), from an illustrated manuscript of poetry by Farad al-Din ’Attar. Safavid, circa 1600. Attributed to Isfahan, Iran. Ink, opaque colors, gold, and silver on paper. 10" x 41/2". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund 1963 (63.210.11). Photograph ©1977 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.