“Translating teaches you how to write which teaches you how to edit which also teaches you how to write and translate, etc. Each involves careful reading. Each gives some order to the chaos of the mind. Each treats words as living, transforming things that in turn transform us. Sloppiness, shortcuts, and a lack of rigor (in thinking, etc.) become quickly apparent.”
Tag Archives | New Directions
Summer Travel Roundup
Molossus editor David Shook shares travel book finds, including work by Vallejo, Borges, Thomas, Aridjis, Grunbein, Hoang, and Walser.
Do It While You Have the Chance: Luljeta Lleshanaku
Child of Nature, Luljeta Lleshanaku, tr. by Henry Israeli & Shpresa Qatipi (New Directions) $13.95 Lleshanaku won the 2009 International Crystal Vilenica Prize and this collection won the Black Mountain Institute/Rainmakers Translation Award; its worthiness of the latter is demonstrated within by Israeli and Qatipi’s muscular, spare translations. Similar in tone to other poets of [...]
What is the Result?: W.C. Williams’ American History
This collection of essays is an experiment to tell the story of American history through poetic prose impressions rather than facts and dates.
Put out my eyes, and I can see you still: Rilke’s Book of Hours
PUT OUT MY EYES, AND I CAN SEE YOU STILL; slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet; and without any feet I can go to you; and tongueless, I can conjure you at will. Break off my arms, I shall take hold of you and grasp you with my heart as if [...]
More Bolaño
It’s now safe to say that Bolaño has been tokenized as the new Latin American writer to love, a sort of younger, hipper García Marquez. The problem of tokenization aside, he has to his credit an extensive oeuvre of quality fiction and—though we have yet to see his best work published in English—poetry. These two [...]
All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea…
A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas, w. woodcuts by Ellen Raskin. (New Directions) $9.95 Dylan Thomas’ short lyric story has finally been presented with the dignity it deserves, in New Directions’ beautiful pocket-sized edition. The text is accompanied by woodcuts by Ellen Raskin, herself a Newbery Medal-winning author (The Westing Game) as well as [...]
Nonfiction on Prosody, Proust, & Peanuts.
Tadić’s Proverbs, Baca’s Empathy, and Bly’s Prose
Almost Effaced Altogether: Robert Walser
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The Prodigal Son: A Microscript by Robert Walser
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The Literature of Justice
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Writing without Writing: On Mario Bellatin
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Beneath My Olive Tree with Lorca: Poetry by Mahmoud Darwish
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Three Poems from Cuba
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The Black Olive Tree and Other Memories
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Offerings to the God of Attention: Recent Literary Events in Bali and Australia
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World Prose Portfolio #7: Dennis Walder
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Burning Deck: Introducing an Appreciation
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World Prose Portfolio #6: Sunetra Gupta
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