Modern Poetry in Translation Series Three, No. 7 © Modern Poetry in Translation 2007 and contributors ISBN 978-0-9545367-7-0 (and 0-9545367-7-0

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Modern Poetry in Translation Limited. A Company Limited by Gurantee. Registered in England and Wales, Number 5881603. UK Registered Charity Number 1118223. Contents

1 Editorial

5 Adonis, nine poems, translated by Peter Clark and Sarah Maguire

12 Jeff Nosbaum, ‘Pri de of Ajax’

14 Yannis Ritsos, twenty-eight of the Monochords, translated by Paul Merchant

18 Guillaume Apollinaire, seven poems, translated by Stephen Romer

27 Pushkin, The Captain’s Daughter, extracts translated by Robert Chandler

41 Véénus Khoury-Ghata, six poems from Interments, translated by Marilyn Hacker

45 Gilgamesh, an extract translated by Paul Batchelor

48 Federico Garcia Lorca, ‘Song of the Civil Guard’, translated by Mark Leech

54 Oliver Reynolds, ‘Kolin’ and ‘Dusty Miller Breaks his Silence’ (after Liliencron’s ‘Wer weiss wo’ and ‘Vergiss die Müühle nicht’)

57 Stephen Romer, four poems

64 Du Fu, two poems, translated by Paul Harris

68 Charles Dobzynski, ‘My Life as a Wall’, translated by Marilyn Hacker

75 Lucretius, ‘Aulis’, translated by Stephanie Norgate

78 Robert Desnos, ten poems, translated by Timothy Adèès