Samuel Martin revisits Francis Cabrel’s 2012 album of Bob Dylan covers, «Vise le ciel», and asks how the translations and performances in French give new meaning to the songs.
Unreading Dylan
The honor and burden of poetry
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.
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.
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.
Archival Relations and Activist Intimacies
Translators Perry Zurn and Erik Beranek discuss the multifaceted promise of «Intolerable», an archive of writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (GIP).
In the Service of the Figure (II)
In Part 2 of their interview, Janet Lee and Marcella Durand turn to Durand’s own poetic work, focusing on her attempt to break down the divisions between humans and nature.
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