Peter Constantine’s recent translations include works by Augustine, Rousseau, Machiavelli, and Tolstoy; he is a Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the PEN Translation Prize as well as a National Translation Award. He is professor of translation studies at the University of Connecticut.
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return
oh, that fish could swim through my garden again!
Stately as whale sharks, speckled pacifists,
or goldfish freed from small glass domes...
Photo by Katerina Cheiladaki
Translator’s note: Arvanitika, or Arberishte as it is called in the Corinthian mountain villages, is one of the many languages in the world facing extin...
To a Poltergeist in the Bedroom’s Northward Wall
Your senile hollow knocking hasremained ever the same, nodevelopment, no punctuation,you repeat yourself day after day,night after g...