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With apologies to Raymond Carver, what do we translate when we translate literature? What are we doing? And how do we do it?
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December 4, 2018
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August 23, 2017John, “Fallen Angel,” August 29, 2010 Here and NowHere he is sitting across from the balcony door;the wind will blow – a wound. The rustling lightblushes and fades in the rectan…
June 27, 2017Robert Creeley (1972) / Photo by Elsa DorfmanIn April, following the death of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, I was digging through a wicker chest with old papers, looking at a colleague’s request for a fe…
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