Jean-Yves Masson reveals what it can mean for a translator to be haunted by an author, in this intimate account of his affinity with the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
The Visitor Peering over My Shoulder
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.
What Brings Us to a Halt (Part 2)
John Taylor, in this second part of «What Brings Us to a Halt», responds to his friend and collaborator Franca Mancinelli with an essay about poetry, botany, and translation.
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.
Like a Simile
Zeynep Özer excavates the linguistic and emotional intricacies of Alice Oswald’s long poem «Memorial», which she takes to be emblematic of the practice of creative translation.
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