This issue of Modern Poetry in Translation celebrates speech that has been freed
Broken tiles in the mirror
Polyphony deals with the different voices of poetic translation: the local
of Egyptian novelists Mohamed al-Bisatie and Ezzat el-Kamhawi
landscape and social history
The Tethers Vuyelwa Carlin This issue of Modern PoetryWinner of the London Festival Fringe Prize for Best First Collection 2010 American expatriate Carrie Etter's debut collection, The Tethers, introduces a compelling new voice. By turns wry, celebratory, and pensive, the poems roam from an imaginary village to Manhattan, the southwestern U. S., London, the Czech Republic, and Etter's homeland, the Illinois prairie. With a lyric intensity born of compression and linguistic precision, the travels in The