In No. 17, Robert Palter delves into the background and reception of his acclaimed Big Fruit Book, Josip Novakovich abuses and is abused by a Russian bag man, and Leopold Buczkowski becomes the first of the Republic's 'forgotten' or 'neglected' major writers.

In his illustrated Aria, David Lutes sketches lives intersecting in the twilight of Weimar Berlin. In "Texts," Emily Van Kley makes her magazine debut with gritty, exacting prose, and David Green's "The Garden of Love" recasts an ancient theme of transformation.

Fifty years ago, poet Anthony Hecht and the Editor did a rollicking but never-published translation of Apollinaire's "Mamelles de Tiresias." It appears here in "Archives" as does an astonishing series of short lyric poems by Nikos Kachtitsis whose posthumous reputation is as one of the major Greek poets. And as in every issue, the Editor wades into the wash of recent books in The Reader.

Forthcoming this spring, No. 18 will include fiction from Don Asher, James Wyatt, and Henryk Skwarczynski; Pierre and Valentin Temkin discussing Beckett in their Aria "Where Do These Bodies Come From?"; an excerpt of Marion Dönhoff's "There are no more trains running East," in English for the first time; and more.

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