not written words by Xi Xi, translated from Chinese by Jennifer Feeley / Zephyr Press / 978-1938890123 / 2016 Xi Xi’s not written words is a youthful collection of poems that remind readers that joy can be a feeling of investigation and discovery. … [Read more...]
Six poems by Háel Lopez, translated by Ariel Francisco
Complete Turn Your heart fell into a glass of beer I watched it drown while tracing the rim with my finger. The pieces fall on terrible rhymes of an endless poem but you don’t get up, don’t lift your head. You say nothing, it seems like you … [Read more...]
Günter Grass: three translations and response poems by Allie Marini
These poems are dedicated to the memory of Dr. Glenn R. Cuomo, Professor of German Studies 1992-2017, New College of Florida, with whom the translator first began work on this project in 1997. Fishily on love & poetry, indeed. Translator's Note: I … [Read more...]
5 poems by Miss Poetrix, translated from the Italian by Alessandra Bava
Translator's note: Miss Poetrix (pen name for Gaia Casanova) is a poet and performer from Rome, Italy. Her work is reminiscent of Italian poets such as Patrizia Valduga and American poets such as Anne Sexton. Love and loss are two of the major themes in … [Read more...]
Three poems by Edgar Rincón Luna, translated by Toshiya Kamei
Farewell to the Beach Why does this shadow that's no longer us hurt so much? why does that ash getting losing among stones make us cry? The heart of the world spills and caresses nobody's feet in shipyards pelicans wear gray suits and under their … [Read more...]
Six poems by Zheng Xiaoqiong/郑小琼, translated from Chinese by Zhou Xiaojing
周阳春 / Zhou Yangchun In the world of her dreams she stands at the ferry without boats or before she can finish the exam time is up Most times are defective … [Read more...]
The Task of Translation in tasks by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez and Katherine M. Hedeen: A review essay by Olivia Lott
tasks by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen / co•im•press / 978-0988819962 / paperback / 131 pages / 2016 Reading tasks begins at its edges: a seven-part epigraph-turned-poem that brings together seven writers across different … [Read more...]
Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey by Erik Mortenson, reviewed by Marc Olmsted
TRANSLATING THE COUNTERCULTURE The Reception of the Beats in Turkey by Erik Mortenson / Southern Illinois University Press / 978-0809336548 / 2018 The premise is a fascinating one. Erik Mortenson actually was IN Turkey during its attempted coup in … [Read more...]
Juan Arabia: 5 poems translated by Katherine M. Hedeen
Juan Arabia (Buenos Aires, 1983) is a poet, translator, literary critic, and publisher. The poems included here belong to his collection Nature’s Dislodging [Desalojo de la naturaleza] (2017). Un colibrí en la bauhinia En la rama más baja de … [Read more...]
Poems by Lucía Estrada, translated by Olivia Lott
The poems here come from Las Hijas del Espino [Daughters of the Hawthorn], winner of the 2006 Medellín Poetry Prize. Estrada’s poetic subject travels across centuries to highlight in each poem an often overlooked woman, from Eurydice to Sylvia Plath. … [Read more...]
Ian Haight in conversation with Dennis Maloney: writer, translator, editor of White Pine Press
Dennis Maloney is an award-winning poet, translator, and founding editor of White Pine Press. His works of translation include The Poet and the Sea: Poems of Juan Ramon Jimenez, The House in the Sand by Pablo Neruda, The Landscape of Castile by Antonio … [Read more...]
In Xochitl In Cuicatl: poets Nezahualcoyotl and Humberto Ak’abal
Intrigue & Scope There’s an old story of the amate tree bark (i.e. amoxtli or codices/scrolls with pictographs whose texts resemble an accordion). These were first elaborated as “most likely in the present day totonaca region of Veracruz, in the Peten … [Read more...]
6 poems by Lucas Margarit, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen
piety 1 1 A signal emitted by birds at the coldest moment of night. There is no longer devotion to holy things. Representation outside the borders of a wall-less cemetery. Raised rebuilding of a star that wavers or disappears. Other waverings and … [Read more...]
Two poems by Vasilis Steriadis, translated by Yannis Livadas
The Greek poet Vasilis Steriadis [Βασίλης Στεριάδης] was one of the leading figures of Greek poetry during the period 1970-2000. Steriadis was born in 1947 in Volos and died in Athens, where he was working as a lawyer, in 2003. He studied at the … [Read more...]
Grzegorz Wróblewski: Blue Pueblo
Only for you did I wander around on water. Now it’s worms, black birds. Voices. Someone is calling me… Something on the floor. Illuminations… Circulation of atoms. No zen. I am breathing. Reopening old wounds in Elbastreet. And you are making … [Read more...]
Lucien Stryk: Zen in the art of translating Zen poetry
Once someone can leave aside the narrowminded attitude, a parallelism with the cultural outcome of the long-gone “counterculture”, and a few more notions considering guidelines for every-day afterglow, one can proceed step by step to the authentic study … [Read more...]
Poems by Krisztián Tóbiás, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai
The stigmata of the masons are bleeding sticking together the bricks as a sacrifice is required a blood sacrifice to keep the walls from tumbling down and from striking them dead blinking night-scented gilliflowers plaster up the dropping salty … [Read more...]
Six Poems by Károly Fellinger, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai
MAGNIFYING The period during which God is still able to undo the creation is an average life expectancy. As the average age increases year by year, it’s all the more obvious that God becomes slower. If people were eternal, creation would … [Read more...]
Translations of three poems by Helle Busacca
Helle Busacca (1915-1996) was born in Messina and moved with her family to Bergamo as a young child. She spent her working life as a high school teacher in various cities in Italy and ultimately settled in Florence in 1971. Eugenio Montale and Corrado … [Read more...]
