6: Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses features work from Jorge Luis Borges, Mavis Gallant, Monique Truong, William Kennedy, Mary Morris, Pablo Neruda, Mahmoud Darwish, Matthea Harvey, Eamon Grennan, Steven Millhauser, and Yoko Tawada, among many others.
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Metamorphoses: A Forum
PEN Members, Transpositions
Fiction
Michael Joyce, Tiresias Tries to Talk Sense to Liriope About Young Narcissus
Mary Morris, Blood Feather
Song Yong, Notes from the Attic
Christoph Hein, The New Boy
Poetry
Eamon Grennan, November and Persephone
Moshe Ibn Ezra, Let Man Remember
Patricia Wallace, The Holy Ghost’s Life of Writing
Nonfiction
Edmund Keeley, The Language Barrier
Michael Wood, The Work of Solitude
Susan Sontag, Fragments
Richard Zenith, Pessoa’s Disquiet
Wislawa Szymborska, Some Recommended Reading
Larry Siems, July 5, 2003
Lawrence Venuti, Antonia Pozzi: Revisions
Jerzy Ficowski, Black Thursday
Conversations
Esther Allen, Ammiel Alcalay, Michael Hofmann, Susan Sontag, and Steve Wasserman, The Politics of Language
Tributes to Gabriel García Márquez and Pablo Neruda
Edwidge Danticat, Edith Grossman, Francisco Goldman, Jose Manuel Prieto, Jon Lee Anderson, Paul Auster, Salman Rushdie, Bill Clinton, Rose Styron, William Kennedy, Ariel Dorfman
Lagniappe
Raymond Queneau takes the bus.