Matt Reeck reviews the first two volumes of Kayali, a new series of Antillean translations from Nathanaël and Quattro Books.
Echoes Across Seas and Borders
Rebuilding the Room, Letting the Light Shine Through
Nathan Dize probes Conor Bracken’s recent translation of Haitian poet Jean D’Amérique, from the challenges of reproducing sonic clusters to the concept of poetry—and possibly translation itself—as witness.
En passant
Erín Moure summons the reader to be constantly attentive to the trembling movement of (and between) languages, in this nimble reflection on the notion of the “intranslatable.”
The Opacity of Language, the Empathy of Translation
Aitor Bouso Gavín highlights the linguistic and humanitarian attentiveness of «Boat People», Mayra Santos-Febres’s collection translated from Spanish by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario.
«Mahagony»: A Colloquy of French-American Voices
Matt Reeck unpacks Betsy Wing’s latest translation of Édouard Glissant – his fifth novel, «Mahagony» – as hybrid chronicle, postcolonial autoethnography, and polyvocal colloquy.
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