Shushan Avagyan makes an urgent case for preserving the abundant ellipses when translating Zabel Yesayan’s «Averagnerun mej» (1911), an account of massacres in Ottoman Turkey.
Translating the Elliptical
Re: (Not) Capitulating
In the follow-up to his review of Batool Abu Akleen’s poetry collection «48Kg.», Samuel Martin traces the reverberations of an unexpected phrase through old and new contexts.
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Samuel Martin reviews Batool Abu Akleen’s «48Kg.», the masterful English-language début by a young poet from Gaza intent on recording and outliving the genocide of her people.
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