The Words on the Paper

COVER FEATURE Q oc < < < < u_ O er Ö O X a. htW.ld.M'i'iLl mB^SmW^BS^^ THEWORDSon the paper THEWORDS onthepaper areexchangeable for anything: you,we,us a person's life isquickly told anda number isa number, Pythagoras said a sybaritic catisfollowing godknows howmany times hardonmyheels I throw thedice togaintime I havetolose youmust peekthrough youreyes eventhough it'slikehiding; nottalking isalsospeaking. I donotstumble I fall andthis isjustthebeginning. IT'SCOSTLYto keep the world intact IT'SCOSTLY tokeeptheworldintact butas longas westandtall thedarkshallnotdrawusin andflocks ofstarlings arrive from allcorners oftheworld Twosquarestogether makea star ifwecankeepa secret andnotsellouttoanyone then longing willdeepen where logicoccurs. Translations from theNorwegian ByAnthony Barnett Tone Hodnebo (b. 1962,Norway) has publishedfivebooksofpoetry, thefirst one in 1989,andthelast, Jottings, in2008,and hastranslated someofEmily Dickinson's poems intoNorwegian. She hasreceived severalliterary awardsfor herwork. Hodneboworked for a literary journal, Vagant, and hasbeenteaching writing coursesinNorway andas a professor attheUniversity ofGöteborg, Sweden.ShelivesinOslo. AnthonyBarnett'sprose and poetryincludeMiscanthus: Selectedand New Poems (Shearsman,2005) and Citations FollowedOn (Allardyce, 2010). He has translated Akutagawa Ryünosuke, Anne-Marie Albiach, 0yvindBerg, RogerGiroux, ParLagerkvist, Tarjei Vesaas,andAndrea Zanzotto. Hecontributes critical "Antonyms" toTheUseofEnglishand isa publisher and musichistorian atwww.abar.net. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H "Thescientific parallel toTranströmer's metaphor of'thegreatunknown' he holdssteadycanwellbe theso-calledMach ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^fl principle, which statesthatevery singleinertial movement, letussaythespinning ofa whirligig, isdependentonthetotal ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H massofmatter intheuniverse. Achildona merry-go-round feelswith itsbodytheweight ofthewholecosmos, although itdoes notknowmuchaboutit. Thegreatunknown isoneofthemajor forces thatcreateusandinfluence us.Wearepart ofthem. Theunknown penetrates ustoo,works inusandthrough us:'Iamtheplace/wherecreation isworking itself out' (The Outpost')."-JaanKaplinski, "Tomas Tranströmer andtheMachPrinciple," WLT 64:4(Autumn 1990),603 56 iWorldLiterature Today

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