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Stealing Fire for His Own Furnaces: Clayton Eshleman on Translation

By on October 29, 2011 in BEST OF, INTERVIEW, POETRY

This year alone, poet Clayton Eshleman has published co-translations of of work by Aimé Césaire, Bei Dao, and Bernard Bador. In his conversation with David Shook, he excavates his personal history to explain what draws him to Césaire and Vallejo, explains his Bei Dao project, and details his personal translation process.

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Opening Up Poetry: Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman on Wave’s Poetry in Translation

By on October 21, 2011 in INTERVIEW, POETRY, TRANSLATION

Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman discuss Wave Books’ new focus on publishing poetry in translation, their upcoming Wave Books Poetry Days, and their own work as translators.

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World Poetry Portfolio #40: Zoran Anchevski

By on September 4, 2011 in POETRY, WPP

Sudeep Sen presents poems by Macedonian poet Zoran Anchevski about translating the dead, “the peeled orange” of the moon, and stammering “before / the g-g-gates of Babylon.”

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Recommended Spanish-Language Poetry

By on July 11, 2011 in EDITORIAL, POETRY, TRANSLATION

David Shook recommends new translations of poetry from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay, including work by skywriter Raúl Rivero, Swine Flu jokester José Eugenio Sánchez, and Roberto Juarroz, who Octavio Paz called “a poet of absolute instants.”

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Grief 101: Anne Carson’s NOX

By on June 23, 2011 in POETRY, TRANSLATION

Boris Dralyuk finds the beginning of recovery in Anne Carson’s NOX, her book-object “box of shored fragments… occasioned by her long-estranged brother Michael’s death.”

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Mohan Rana in London

By on June 6, 2011 in EVENTS, POETRY, TRANSLATION

Hindi poet Mohan Rana and his translator Bernard O’Donoghue present a bilingual reading in London to celebrate the launch of Rana’s new Poetry Translation Centre chapbook. Molossus celebrates with his short poem “A Standard Shirt.”

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Two Poems by Andrzej Sosnowski

By on March 31, 2011 in POETRY, TRANSLATION

Two exclusive poems from Polish poet Andrzej Sosnowski’s new collection Lodgings, translated by Benjamin Paloff, the first collection of poetry from the University of Rochester’s Open Letter.

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NY Hipsters + Poetism

By on March 25, 2011 in NONFICTION, POETRY, TRANSLATION

David Shook briefly reviews two recent well-designed books, one by a multidisciplinary trio of New York hipsters that includes Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and one by founding Czech surrealist Vítězslav Nezval, translated by Jennifer Rogers.

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Peruvian Vanguardist + Picasso

By on March 1, 2011 in ART, POETRY, TRANSLATION

Though he eventually traded in his work as poet for a life of Marxist activism, Carlos Oquendo de Amat did publish one significant collection, written during from age 18 to 20, Five Meters of Poems. David Shook reviews that collection together with Picasso by Picasso.

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Jeffrey Yang on Uyghur Poetry

By on February 23, 2011 in POETRY, TRANSLATION

“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.”

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Polina Barskova + Piotr Florczyk in LA

By on February 10, 2011 in EDITORIAL, EVENTS, TRANSLATION

Molossus friend Boris Dralyuk will host Russian poet Polina Barskova, whose latest collection, The Zoo in Winter, comes out 22 February from Melville House, and poet-translator Piotr Florczyk, whose translations from the Polish of Anna Swir are forthcoming from Calypso Editions, for UCLA’s Slavic Departments presentation of Contemporary Slavic Poetry in Translation.

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Poetry of Many Places: A Conversation with John Mateer

By on January 18, 2011 in INTERVIEW, POETRY, TRANSLATION

John Mateer is a complicated poet, in the best possible way. We met in London during a panel reading hosted by PEN International. Mateer’s poetry is often set in a wide variety of places, reflecting his own trajectory of upbringing and travel. His newest book, The West, collects 20 years of his poetry about Australia, and several other collections are forthcoming as well.

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