Willow Springs 36
June 1995
Poetry
JAY LADIN
Arkansas
MARK IRWIN
The Window
Vines
JAMES WILLIAMS
Sleep
Matriarchs
SUZANNE PAOLA
Driftwood Beach: Theme & Variations
ANTHONY SOBIN
Another Birthday: Sending the Angel Ahead
TONY HOFER
Grandfather Escapes Into a Sparrow
THEODORA TODD
We are on the Ferry Again
REGINALD SHEPHERD
Vampires
JACK MYERS
self to Self
Possessed
Keepers of the Past
JOHN WHALEN
Radio
JOUL BROUWER
May Day, 1921, In the Town of Vitebsk
JAY MEEK
Jars
SHELIA NICKERSON
Evensong
Fiction
BRAD BARKLEY
Clown Alley
Poetry in Translation
GRZEGROZ MUSIAL (translated by LIA PURPURA)
Untitled
All Souls’ Day on the Bay
Death in Berlin
Charlottenburg-the Park Scenes
Untitled
LIA PURPURA
Where Language Lives: Notes on Translation (Essay)
BLAGA DIMITROVA (translated by JOHN BALABAN and ELENA HRISTOVA)
Who Takes Care of the Blind Stork?
Lullaby For My Mother
SWEGEY GANDLEVSKY (translated by PHILLIP METRES)
Untitled
VINCIUS DE MORAES (translated by THOMAS DORSETT and MOYSES PURISCH)
Dead Can Sonnet
INGEBORG BACHMANN (translated by THOMAS DORSETT)
Paris
Translations by SAM HAMILL
Five Haiku from the Japanese
SU DONG-PO (translated by YUN WANG)
He Xin Lang (To the Bridegroom)
PABLO NERUDA (translated by NANCY ANCROM)
Hymn and Return
HAN SHAN (translated by PETER STAMBLER)
Judging a Scroll by its Ribbons
YANNIS RITSOS (translated by MARTIN MCKINSEY)
Selections from Ticks of the Clock
SA’ADI YOUSSEF (translated by KHALED MATTAWA)
On the Red Sea
HASIM SHAFIQ (translated by KHALED MATTAWA)
The First House
JULES SUPERVIELLE (translated by GEOFFREY GARDNER)
Untitled
PHILIPPE SOUPAULT (translated by TOM HIBBARD)
Little Daily Phantoms
OSCAR VLADISLAS DE LUBICZ MILOSZ (translated by TOD MARSHALL)
Autumn Song
The Bridge
LUCRETIUS (Translated by JONATHHAN SPIEGEL and JEAN BERRETT)
from De Rerum Natura, Book II
Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award
MARRY ANN SAMYN
Omitting the Heart
Essay
TOD MARSHALL
Our Daily Bread: Some Thoughts on Simone Weil
Willow Springs Fiction Award
ROBERT HENRY BENNETT
Outside Sylvie City
Willow Springs 36 features poetry, prose, and translation by Jay Ladin, Mark Irwin, Brad Barkley, Jack Myers, and more. The issue also includes Mary Ann Samyn’s “Omitting the Heart,” winner of the 1995 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Robert Harry Bennett’s “Outside Sylvie City,” winner of the 1995 Willow Springs Fiction Award.
