September 24, 2024

Lawrence Schimel on Translating Music for Bamboo Strings by Carlos Pintado

In “The Challenge,” Cuban-American poet Carlos Pintado writes, in English translation by Lawrence Schimel: The distance between the rat and myself is minimal. She looks at the house from her smallness; I look at the house from my majesty. …...

August 9, 2019

Book Excerpt! A Double Life

“Published in the revolutionary year of 1848, A Double Life traces the awakening of a young noblewoman who by day submits to the prose of high society matchmaking, while at night she is a poet in her dreams of true...

August 8, 2019

The 18th Century Poetry of Huimyong, Li Ye, and Lady Kasa

This week, we’ve been featuring works of female poets in translation. On Tuesday, Joshua Fogel shared his experience with Yosano Akiko’s travel writing, and yesterday, Barbara Heldt considered how Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life took on a new life once it...

April 26, 2019

Ancient Enmity: An Excerpt from Poppies by the Motorway, by Agnes S.L. Lam

In yesterday’s post, you read an excerpt from a chapbook published within the Poetry and Conflict collection called Between the Trees and the Non-Trees, by Adonis. Today, in a continued celebration of National Poetry Month, we are featuring an excerpt from the 2017 collection called Ancient...

April 24, 2019

Islands or Continents: An Excerpt from How Can I Call What is Between Us a Past?” by Adonis

Yesterday, as part of our National Poetry Month celebration, we introduced you to the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong (IPNHK) chapbooks. Published by the Chinese University Press, these chapbooks are written by each participant and include the poems in the author’s native...

April 23, 2019

Words & the World: An Excerpt from If We Have Lost Our Oldest Tales, by María Baranda

International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong (IPNHK) is an award-winning biennial poetry festival established by renowned contemporary Chinese poet Bei Dao. Since its debut in 2009 in Hong Kong, IPNHK has become the most influential series of international poetry events...

April 5, 2019

Media Roundup: Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters

“Ghalib is the first ample and compact introduction to the Urdu oeuvre of the last great ‘Mughal’ poet of India. It fills a long-felt lacuna, and does so admirably well. The translators have provided all that a reader might need to...

April 4, 2019

Book Excerpt! Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters (introduction)

“This is a superb introduction to this marvelous poet, resonant with his subtle nuances and exquisite meanings.” ~ Asif Farrukhi, editor of An Evening of Caged Beasts: Seven Postmodernist Urdu Poets Read about Ghalib’s life and times in the introduction to...

February 6, 2019

Onno Oerlemans on Poetry and Animals

“Onno Oerlemans’s Poetry and Animals represents an important contribution to the scholarship on animals and human-animal relations in literature. We badly need some excellent work on poetry from a human-animal studies perspective, and this book provides a provocative, erudite, thoughtful, and engaging...

August 23, 2018

Found Life: A Conversation with Linor Goralik

August is Women in Translation Month–a time in which we celebrate and read works in translation by female authors. In appreciation of our women in translation, this week we’re featuring Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, by Linor...

August 22, 2018

Introducing Found Life

August is Women in Translation Month–a time in which we celebrate and read works in translation by female authors. In appreciation of our women in translation, this week we’re featuring Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, by Linor...

August 21, 2018

The Voices of Linor Goralik

August is Women in Translation Month–a time in which we celebrate and read works in translation by female authors. In appreciation of our women in translation, this week we’re featuring Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, by Linor...