Dan Eltringham offers this rich translator’s note to accompany his English-language versions of early work by Ana María Rodas for a forthcoming transatlantic poetry anthology.
Translating the Erotic Left
The Weight of Meaning
Whitni Battle confronts the practical and ethical challenges facing the literary translator, in an essay written in the throes of her own translation of Kelly Martínez-Grandal.
Bread Loaf Missives
Kotryna Garanasvili and Michelle Mirabella engage in a deeply reflective correspondence in the second installment of their look back at the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference.
A Taste of Bread Loaf
Kotryna Garanasvili and Michelle Mirabella offer an initial taste of the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, giving some background to their first experience there this year.
Motherhood is an Earthquake
Helen Zuckerman welcomes us into the nonlinear temporality and the rich canon of artistic/maternal predecessors of Jazmina Barrera’s seismic book on pregnancy, «Linea Nigra».
Translator, Academia, Opus Tertiary
Jack Rockwell weighs the pluses, pitfalls, and implications of two very different approaches to translating the notoriously difficult prose of Jorge Luis Borges into English.
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