VOLUME 12 - Number 1

Fall 1987

 

BARRY CALLAGHAN - Promise of Rain

Barry Callaghan of Canada is the author of The Hogg Poems and Drawings, As Close As We Came and The Black Queen Stories.

 

DAVID WEVILL - Figure of Eight

David Wevill of Canada has published Birth Of A Shark, A Christ of The Ice-Floes, Firebreak, Where The Arrow Falls, Casual Ties, Figure Of Eight and Other Names For The Heart.

 

ABRAHAM SUTSKEVER - Green Aquarium

Abraham Sutskever, originally from Lithuania, is one of the major figures of Yiddish literature; the author of many volumes of verse and several collections of symbolic short stories; recipient of numerous literary prizes.

 

BORIS PASTERNAK - The Sublime Malady

Boris Pasternak of the Soviet Union is one of the great poets of this century. Mark Rudman, the translator of Sublime Malady, has also completed a translation of Pasternak’s most famous book of poems, My Sister — Life.

 

LEON ROOKE - LR Loves GL

Leon Rooke of Canada is the author of several works, including Sing Me No Love Songs, The Broad Back of the Angel, Fat Woman, Shakespeare’s Dog, A Bolt of White Cloth and The Birth Control King of Upper Volta.

 

NICOLE BROSSARD - Aroused

Nicole Brossard of Canada has published, in translation, A Book, Turn Of A Pang, These Our Mothers and French Kiss or A Pang’s Progress.

 

TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER - Four Poems

Tomas Tranströmer of Sweden is outstanding among poets from that country. His Selected Poems: 1954-1986 appeared in 1987.

 

 

 

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