Khalid Lyamlahy delves into Annie Jamison’s translation of «The Uncertainty Principle», one of the latest poetry collections by the eminent Moroccan writer Abdellatif Laâbi.
The honor and burden of poetry
Filling the Space and Hiding Within
Mirgul Kali attends closely to «Amanat», a new anthology of translated stories by Kazakh women, and elucidates the challenging conditions in which the texts came to be written.
Motherhood is an Earthquake
Helen Zuckerman welcomes us into the nonlinear temporality and the rich canon of artistic/maternal predecessors of Jazmina Barrera’s seismic book on pregnancy, «Linea Nigra».
A New Beat in Our Chests
Panagiota Stoltidou discusses the breathtaking vitality of «The Light that Burns Us», a selection of poems by Jazra Khaleed translated from Greek and edited by Karen Van Dyck.
Are There Monkeys?
Samuel Martin takes an exploratory t(r)ack in reviewing a selection of the Lebanese-French writer Georges Schehadé’s « Poetries », translated from the French by Austin Carder.
Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s Ghostly Poetics of Female Translation
Elizabeth McNeill sifts through the layers of listening, reading, and translating that make up Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s award-winning book « A Ghost in the Throat ».
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