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PN Review 149

Edited by Michael Schmidt

The Photographed Hands#Moniza Alvi
after Jules Supervielle

They were made to feel at ease in a world of smooth surfaces
where the craggiest mountains are gentle to touch
and can be held in the hollow of a hand.
They were being treated like a face
for the first time in their lives - under the floodlights
they sensed they had a kind of forehead,
and the signs of features being born.
Memory was moving towards this new territory
like a great wave calmly gathering itself.
The consciousness of the brain
reached down to the thumb -
the thumb surrendered lightly.
And while the exposure lasted, the hands
gave a name to the sun, to the beauty of the day.
They found a word for their slight hesitation,
called it 'trembling'
and knew that it came from the human heart
where their warm veins led.
They understood that life passes and is a fragile thing.
Then the floodlights were withdrawn, leaving the hands
with no inkling of what they'd gleaned
during that short time with the forces of light.
Though no one by then could even call them forgetful.

Title Information:

Series: PN Review
Imprint: PN Review
ISBN-10: 1 857546 05 9
ISBN-13: 978 1 857546 05 7
Edition: 1st
Format: Journal
Published: January 2003
Dimensions: 297x210mm
Pages: 88pp
Publisher: Carcanet Press

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Table of Contents

1 Editorial

2 News & Notes

Reports

4 Acquainted with Grief - Lawrence Sail

6 The Two L�nnrots - Gabriel Josipovici

7 Letter from Wales - Sam Adams

9 Lunar - Marius Kociejowski

10 Letter from Slovakia - James Sutherland-Smith

12 From a Journal - R.F. Langley

12 Letter from Kuala Lumpur - Vona Groarke

Poems

15 The Art of Love(translated by Len Krisak) - Ovid

29 Four Poems - Karen Annesen

30 Four Poems - Helen Tookey

34 Two Poems - Joe Sheerin

35 Two Poems - Tim Kendall

39 Four Poems(translated by Teresa Iverson)

       - Gottfried Benn

40 Two Poems - Michael Hamburger

42 Two Poems - Sebastian Barker

66 Three Poems - Moniza Alvi

67 Two Poems - Jennie Feldman

67 Three Poems - Lucien Jenkins

68 Three Poems - Lucy Hudson

73 Five Poems - Robert Saxton

77 On Listening to Glenn Gould play Bach's Goldberg

      Variations - Robert Minhinnick

Articles

22 Roots and Roots - E.A. Markham

30 Plath and Hughes among the Psychiatrists

       - Felicity Rosslyn

36 Salmon Brasov - Alice Wooledge

42 Herman Melville and the Olsen-Mason Correspondence

    - Torsten Kehler

45 A Correspondence - Charles Olsen and Ronald

      Mason

69 Maundering Medievalism - Clive Wilmer

75 Oops - Raymond Tallis

Reviews

80 on Sonnets - David Gervais

82 on Sidney Keyes - Simon Jenner

83 on Paul Farley - David Green

83 on Japanese Humour - T.J.G. Harris

85 on X.J. Kennedy - David C. Ward

86 on Iain Sinclair - Robert Sheppard

86 on Gregory Woods - David Kinloch

87 on Richard Kell - Gavin Drummond

88 on A. Alvarez - David C. Ward

Cover illustration: Stephen Cohn, 'White Smile', 2000

Cartoons: Martina Jirankova-Limbrick

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