Dan Eltringham offers this rich translator’s note to accompany his English-language versions of early work by Ana María Rodas for a forthcoming transatlantic poetry anthology.
Translating the Erotic Left
The Weight of Meaning
Whitni Battle confronts the practical and ethical challenges facing the literary translator, in an essay written in the throes of her own translation of Kelly Martínez-Grandal.
Music, Math, Religion, and Naming
On the topographical rhythms of prose, and historical decisions for transliteration: Chris Clarke reflects on his translation of Algerian author Ryad Girod’s novel «Mansour’s Eyes».
“Lightness moved things”
John Taylor reflects on what he has gleaned (and what his own writing has gained) from the poetry of Lorenzo Calogero in the ten years since he first began translating his work.
Dirty Shirts & Bottle Tops
Samuel Martin examines Antonio Tabucchi’s French connections and savors two new books of dialogues between Tabucchi and his translators to mark the ten years since his death.
The Translator’s Guilt
May Huang explores various ways in which translation practice can be bound up with feelings of guilt that affect the translator’s relationship to their languages and home(s).
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