Volume 12.1
Fall 1987 – 129 pages
Contributors: Barry Callaghan; David Wevill; Abraham Sutskever; Boris Pasternak; Leon Rooke; Nicole Brossard; Tomas Tranströomer
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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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