7.2 Fall 2011

CITIES / METAMORPHOSES

• Dung Kai-cheung, from "Atlas: The Archeology of an Imaginary City” from the Chinese by Bonnie McDougall, Anders Hansson and the author
• Xi Chuan, “In the Shadow of Oxymoron”

FICTION

• Alma Lazarevska, “Plants Are Something Else” from the Bosnian by Cynthia Simmons
• Eduardo Halfon, “As the Tide”

POETRY

• Ashur Etwebi, “A Flute That Voices the Spirit’s Moan and the Body’s Lament” from the Arabic by Rasheeda Plenty
• M L Biedrzycki , “Sofastrophe" and "On the Sandbar” from the Polish by Jennifer Croft

FROM ABROAD: PAKISTAN NOW

• “Cartographers on a Volcano: Pakistani Literature Now“ by Anja Kampmann

• “In Search of Safety: Children in the Shadow of the Taliban” by Bina Shah

BOOK REVIEW

• Filip Florain, Little Fingers and Alta Ifland, Elegy for a Fabulous World reviewed by Ania Spyra

THE POSTCARD

• Eliot Weinberger, “The Mara”