A Stranger's Mirror by Hacker, Marilyn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Contents New Poems

Casting Out Rhymes Pantoum in Wartime Pantoum Room Fugue on a Line of Amr bin M’ad Yakrib Paragraphs Headaches Syria Renga October Sestina Sapphics in Winter Three Variations on Fado Themes:

Tahrîr Sahar al-Beitunia Black Boat

Alcaics for a Wedding Fadwa: The Education of the Poet Dahlia and Fadwa . . . But in Things Chapter A Stranger’s Mirror Ghazal: Outside the door Ghazal: In the wind Ghazal: For it Ghazal: A woman Râbi’a’s Renga Luzumiät: Necessities of what was unnecessary

From Winter Numbers

Against Elegies Nearly a Valediction Days of 1992 Elysian Fields A Note Downriver An Absent Friend Cleis Quai Saint-Bernard Year’s End Cancer Winter

From Squares and Courtyards

Street Scenes: Sunday Evening Scars on Paper The Boy Days of 1994: Alexandrians Rue Debelleyme Again, the River Wednesday I.D. Clinic Squares and Courtyards from Paragraphs from a Daybook

From Desesperanto

Elegy for a Soldier Crepuscule with Muriel Alto Solo Rue des Écouffes:

Rue des Écouffes Les Scandaleuses Les Scandaleuses II Nulle part

Ghazal on Half a Line by Adrienne Rich Grief Explication de texte Chanson de la mal aimée Paragraph for Hayden Quoi de neuf sur la guerre? Ghazal Omelette For the 6th of April Jean-Michel Galibert, épicier à Saint-Jean-de-Fos A Sunday After Easter Desesperanto Canzone Respite in a Minor Key Morning News Essay on Departure

Some Translations

Claire Malroux: Grottoes Marie Étienne: Ochre Night Vénus Khoury-Ghata Guy Goffette: Elegy for a Friend Emmanuel Moses: from Preludes and Fugues Jean-Paul de Dadelsen: The Last Night of the Pharmacist’s Wife The Bridges of Budapest

From Names

Ghazal: In Summer Lettera amorosa Glose: O Caravels from “O Caravels” 1953: The Bus to Menton Glose: Storm Storm For Kateb Yacine Ghazal: Waiting Glose: Willow For Anna Akhmatova Glose: Jerusalem from “The Year of the Dragon” Letter to Mimi Khalvati Letter to Alfred Corn Ghazal: dar al-harb Names Ghazal: min al-hobbi ma qatal Paragraphs for Hayden Ghazal: Begin A Braid of Garlic

Acknowledgments Index of Titles and First Lines Also by Marilyn Hacker Copyright