Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Beginnings
5. That Summer in North Hatley 3
6. F.R. Scott and the Poetry of Translation 13
7. Notes on the Birth of a Translator 26
8. The Agency of Sheila Fischman: A Tribute 32
9. The Art of Translation
10. The Ongoing Commedia 41
11. Nothing in My Formative Years Indicated That I Might Become a Translator 52
12. Creatively Re-transposing Christa Wolf: They Divided the Sky 65
13. To Foreignize or Not to Foreignize: From a Translator’s Notebook 83
14. A Handful of Metaphors: What I Do When I Do Literary Translation 92
15. Edouard Roditi: A Polyglot in the Twentieth Century 98
16. Words of Sheila Fischman
17. Water 113
18. The Anguish of the Heron* 120
19. Interviews with Sheila Fischman* 133
20. Témoignages
21. My Translator, My Sister… 149
22. What I Learned from Her 151
23. Translations 154
24. All You Read Is Love 160
25. Sheila’s Bridges and Cuisine 165
26. In the Moon’s Wings 169
27. Editing Sheila Fischman 177
28. Sheila Fischman and the True Nature of Federalism: A Fable 181
29. Pure Memory 186
30. The Language Alchemist 199
31. Merci, Sheila! 201
32. Poem 206
33. Complete List of Translations by Sheila Fischman* 207
34. Contributors 217