James Richie details the process of bringing Mexican poet Víctor Cabrera’s recent chapbook «A Village Devastated by Godzilla» into English in this cinematic translator’s note.
Bringing Godzilla to the Village and Other Devastations
What Brings Us to a Halt (Part 1)
Franca Mancinelli reflects on the simultaneously precarious and regenerative aspects of poetic language, in this latest instalment of a translational dialogue with John Taylor.
Hopscotch Translation’s Second Anniversary Forum
For Hopscotch’s second anniversary, we asked a handful of translators to tell us about the “impassable” words that they’d found it tricky to bring into their target languages.
Translating Tawada and the Misplaced Mosquito
Margaret Mitsutani reflects on her many translations of Yoko Tawada’s Japanese works and on the need to trust your (important, but not infallible) ears while translating.
Language is a Foreign Language
Nancy Seidler sketches out several approaches to experimental translation, drawing on her own multimedia practice as well as examples from Eliot Weinberger to Sawako Nakayasu.
Listening in on «Fifty Sounds»
Yui Kajita immerses herself in the world of Polly Barton’s «Fifty Sounds», in this review that is likewise an encounter: “It’s even a little akin to meeting someone in person.”
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