In search of shared experience: Talbot Hook points a finger at the Moon, exploring the parallels between literary translation and Zen Buddhism.
Wrong from the Start!
“Not Sacrifice the Ease of the French”
Vincent Kling examines the surprising, negative reception that Marianne Moore's translation of La Fontaine's «Fables», to ask, more generally, how to fairly appraise a work of literary translation.
Now More Roads Lead to France
Samuel Martin hails the first book-length French edition of a selection of poems by the Anglo-Welsh poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917), translated from the English by Sarah Montin.
Translating Home
Jenna Tang immerses herself in the nostalgic sensory world of Derek Chung’s poetry collection «A Cha Chaan Teng That Does Not Exist», translated from the Chinese by May Huang.
Tongues upon Tongues
Amanda L. Andrei is swept away by the flowing lyricism of «Glossolalia», Marlon Hacla’s book of poems translated from Filipino by Kristine Ong Muslim for Ugly Duckling Presse.
“mit diesem grenzhandel / an der sprache”
Daniel Rabuzzi reviews Uljana Wolf’s poetry collection «kochanie, today I bought bread» and admires the cleverness of Greg Nissan in bringing the work from German to English.
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