This issue of CR features a centenary portfolio on Louis Zukofsky that includes two chapters from Mark Scroggins’s biography, David Wray on translation in Catullus and “A”-21, an interview selections from Zukofsky’s correspondence, five portraits by Elsa Dorfman, Paul Zukofsky on Louis Zukofsky’s marginalia and, on the cover (designed by Quemadura), two portraits of Zukofsky by Jonathan Williams.
Genres
Poems—
Kristy Odelius, Chris Pusateri, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Theodore Enslin, John Taggart, Arthur Sze, Elizabeth Cross, Tyrone Williams, L. S. Klatt, Tom Pickard, Jordan Davis, Taj Jackson, James Capozzi, Brian Swann, Harriet Zinnes, Rae Armantrout, Patrick Durgin, Carolina Maugeri, and Reginald Shepherd
Poetry Translations—
Sophocles (tr. John Tipton), Ovid (tr. Linda Russo), Dante Alighieri (tr. Susan Landers), Paul Éluard (tr. Robert Huddleston), Benjamin Peret & Paul Éluard (tr. Ela Kotkowska), Viktor Sosnora (tr. by Mark Halperin and Dinara Georgeoliani), João Cabral de Melo Neto (tr. by Richard Zenith), Piotr Sommer (tr. by Halina Janod et al.), Marcin Swietlicki (tr. by Jan Kimmel et al.)
Fiction—
excerpts from Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus (tr. Eléna Rivera) and Giorgio Manganelli’s Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels (tr. Henry Martin)
Essays—
Susan Stewart (“On the Future of Art”), William Fuller (on Levellers, Prynne, and others), Michael Heller (on Oppen), Devin Johnston (on Ralph J. Mills, Jr.), Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas (on Yang Lian)