ANNOTATED BOOKS RECEIVED TABLE OF CONTENTS Anthologies..........................................................................1 Reference .............................................................................6 Sanskrit............................................................................45 Reprints ................................................................................7 Serbo-Croatian ................................................................45 Aesthetics...........................................................................10 Slovene............................................................................45 Autogiography/Biography/Memoirs.................................10 Spanish ............................................................................45 Belles Lettres......................................................................13 Swedish ...........................................................................50 Literary Theory/Criticism..................................................13 Tamil ...............................................................................50 Social/Political Theory ......................................................15 Turkish ............................................................................50 Translation Theory.............................................................17 Urdu.................................................................................51 Children's Books................................................................17 Yiddish ............................................................................51 History................................................................................17 Publishers Represented ...................................................52 Music History ....................................................................20 Philosophy..........................................................................21 Psychology.........................................................................22 ANTHOLOGIES Religion..............................................................................23 Women's Studies................................................................24 7 Greeks. Tr. Guy Davenport. New Directions. 1995. 241 Arabic.................................................................................24 pp. Paper: $16.95; ISBN 0-8112-1288-2. This volume is a Bengali ...............................................................................25 colorful variety of works by seven Greek poets and Bulgarian............................................................................25 philosophers who lived from the 8th to the 3rd centuries B.C. Catalan ...............................................................................25 Salvaged from shattered pottery vases and tattered scrolls of Chinese...............................................................................26 papyrus, everything decipherable from the remains of these ancient authors is assembled here. From early to late, the Czech..................................................................................27 collection contains: Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman, Anakreon, Danish ................................................................................27 the philosophers Herakleitos and Diogenes, and Herondas. Dutch..................................................................................28 Finnish................................................................................28 50: A Celebration of Sun & Moon Classics. Ed. Douglas French.................................................................................28 Messerli. Sun & Moon Press. 1995. 574 pp. Cloth: $24.95: German...............................................................................33 ISBN 1-55713-152-X. Paper: $13.95; ISBN 1-55713-132-5. Greek..................................................................................38 To celebrate the 50th book in the Sun & Moon Classics Series, Hebrew...............................................................................38 Publisher Douglas Messerli asked 50 major world authors and Hungarian...........................................................................38 translators to submit work never before published in the United Irish ....................................................................................38 States. The result is a panoply of stunning writing from around Italian..................................................................................39 the world and a celebration of language. Works include F. T. Japanese .............................................................................40 Marinetti's foreword poem "Dunes," translated here for the first Korean................................................................................40 time (tr. Guy Bennett); works by Alfred Giuliana (tr. Michael Moore), Osman Lins (tr. Adria Frizzi), Friederike Mayröcker Latin ...................................................................................41 (tr. Rosmarie Waldrop), Juan Goytisolo (tr. Peter Bush), Sigurd Malagasy ............................................................................41 Hoel (tr. Sverre Lyngstad), Alexei Parshchikov (trs. Michael Old English ........................................................................41 Palmer and Eugene Ostashevsky), Paul Snoek (tr. Kendall Persian................................................................................41 Dunkelberg), Maurice Gilliams (tr. André Lefevere), Rosita Polish..................................................................................42 Copioli (tr. Renata Treitel), Severo Sarduy (tr. Suzanne Jill Portuguese..........................................................................42 Levine), and many others. Romanian ...........................................................................43 Russian 43 African Women's Poetry. Eds. Stella Chipasula and Frank Translation Review - Annotated Books Received Supplement 1 Chipasula. Heinemann Educational Publishers/Reed Publishing. Laura Christruga, Dan Du_escu, Andrei Banta_, Rodica Albu, 1995. 230 pp. Paper: $10.95; ISBN 0-435-90680-1. Over the Liviu Bleoca, and Ioana Ieronim. centuries, Aftican women have composed songs of praise for mythic heroes, memorized epic poems that tell the history of (Chinese) Beyond Spring: T'Zu Poems of the Sung Dynasty. their people, and expressed their concerns, both personal and Tr. Julie Landau. Columbia University Press. 1994. 275 pp. political, in poetry. However, compilers of anthologies have Cloth: ISBN 0-231-09678-X. The first anthology of Sung shown a surprising disregard for their talents. This anthology dynasty tz'u poems in English, Beyond Spring includes 150 offers an extensive selection of poetry by women all over the translations from the golden age of tz'u in the 10th, 11th, and African continent. The poems address wide-ranging human 12th centuries. T'zu poetry is one of the two most important concerns such as love, motherhood, death, colonial domination, lyric forms in the Chinese literary tradition. First composed and human dignity. They employ a variety of styles from the and performed by prostitutes in the singing house, it is a conversational to the didactic. Contributors include Ama Ata mixture of confession and elegy. Keeping true to the original Aidoo, Noémia de Sousa, Queen Hatshepsut, Micere Githae music, Landau's translations capture the phrasing and rhythms Mugo, and Zindi Mandela. Translators include, among others, crucial to t'zu. Brief biographies of the poets, a glossary, and a Harriet Zinnes, Eric Sellin, Willis Barnstone, Julia Kris, Kathleen historical chart of Chinese poetic genres place the poems in Weaver, and Jack Cope. historical perspective. (Various) The Alphabet Garden: European Short Stories. Ed. (Korean) Contemporary Korean Poetry. Ed. and Tr. Kim Pete Ayrton. Serpent's Tail/Consortium. 1995. 214 pp. Paper: Jaihuin. Mosaic Press. 1994. 139 pp. Paper: $14.95; ISBN $14.99; ISBN 1-85242-318-8. This collection of short stories 0-88962-561-1. "I have arranged the poets roughly in brings together a new generation of writers who have grown up chronological order for convenience, though poets may have with the political concept of Europe. Their writing is both preceded others in establishing their literary names...On the universal in the themes they tackle and deeply rooted in their whole, with the exception of a handful of poems unavailable specific countries. Stories include such works as "The Tree for inclusion, the poets represented here can be regarded as Saint" (Atte Jonstra, tr. Eric Dickens); "The Journey" (Nuno major figures standing for the significant trends in shaping Júdice, tr. Margaret Jull Costa); "The Babbling of the Gods" modern Korean poetry." (Preface) Includes poets Sanghwa (Henning Boëtius, tr. Martin Chalmers); and "The Invisible Yi, Yongch'ol Park, Tongju Jan, Ha'un Han, and Pyong-hwa Ones" (Kjell Askildsen, tr. Anne Born). Cho, among others. (Greek) Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments. Eds. Susan A. (Russian) Contemporary Russian Poetry: A Bilingual Stephens and John J. Winkler. Princeton University Press. Anthology. Ed. and Tr. Gerald S. Smith. Indiana University 1995. 541 pp. Cloth: $59.50; ISBN 0-691-06941-7. Bilingual. Press [Bloomington and Indianapolis]. 1993. 355 pp. Cloth: The recent discovery of fragments from such novels as Iolaos, ISBN 0-253-35333-5. Paper: ISBN 0-253-20769-X.