The Art of Translation No. 1 (Interviewer) Issue no. 94 Winter 1984 On slang: “The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? . . . ‘I guess I’ll split’ is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.”
Elegy for the Poet’s Nephew Arif Issue no. 152 Fall 1999 Could you not look after me another day?Why did you go alone? I leave in only another day. If your gravestone is not erased first my head will be.
At an Exhibit of Mughal Painting Issue no. 137 Winter 1995 And there you are, painted into the picture :Bricklayers and courtiers are making their bedsIn apartments on the margins behind you.