Contents -- Copyright -- Introduction SHERRY SIMON -- PART ONE Beginnings -- That Summer in North Hatley PATRICIA GODBOUT -- F.R. Scott and the Poetry of Translation GRAHAM FRASER -- Notes on the Birth of a Translator D.G. JONES -- The Agency of Sheila Fischman: A Tribute KATHY MEZEI -- PART TWO The Art of Translation -- The Ongoing Commedia ALBERTO MANGUEL -- Nothing in My Formative Years Indicated That I Might Become a Translator PIERRE ANCTIL -- Creatively Re-transposing Christa Wolf: They Divided the Sky LUISE VON FLOTOW -- To Foreignize or Not to Foreignize: From a Translator's Notebook MICHAEL HENRY HEIM -- A Handful of Metaphors: What I Do When I Do Literary Translation LORI SAINT-MARTIN -- Edouard Roditi: A Polyglot in the Twentieth Century SHERRY SIMON -- PART THREE Words of Sheila Fischman -- Water -- The Anguish of the Heron GAÉTAN SOUCY -- Interviews with Sheila Fischman SHERRY SIMON -- PART FOUR Témoignages -- My Translator, My Sister ... GAÉTAN SOUCY -- What I Learned from Her LISE BISSONNETTE -- Translations DOMINIQUE FORTIER -- All You Read Is Love JEAN PARÉ -- Sheila's Bridges and Cuisine LOUISE DESJARDINS -- In the Moon's Wings MÉLANIE GÉLINAS -- Editing Sheila Fischman JAMES POLK -- Sheila Fischman and the True Nature of Federalism: A Fable KARL SIEGLER -- Pure Memory J. MARC CÔTÉ -- The Language Alchemist IVAN STEENHOUT -- Merci, Sheila! ROCH CARRIER -- Poem DONALD WINKLER -- Complete List of Translations by Sheila Fischman -- Contributors.