The Translation Issue

Featuring literature from the French, German, Greek, Japanese, Middle English, Portuguese, Romanesco, Russian and reviews of works in Catalan, Icelandic, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Provençal, Spanish, Swedish

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Essays

• Rivers, Bells, Nostalgia (trans. by Richard Pevear)   Jean Starobinski   

• Song, Rain, Snow: Translating the Poetry of Yves Bonnefoy   Emily Grosholz   

Memoir

• A Few Lines About My Life (trans. by Emily Grosholz, with Larissa Volokhonsky)   Olga Sedakova   
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Fiction

• The Immortal (trans. by Alfred Mac Adam)   Joachim Maria Machado de Assis   

• Three Stories from That Didn't Reassure the Children (trans. by Tess Lewis)   Alois Hotschnig   
  Tess Lewis, trans.   

Poetry

• From The Great Snowfall; The Torches; Hopkins Forest (trans. by Emily Grosholz)   Yves Bonnefoy   

• The Inspection; Lament of the Old Pole (trans. by Andrew Shields)   Jacques Réda   

• So Boaz Slept (trans. by R. S. Gwynn)   Victor Hugo   

• From Le Cid (trans. by Richard Wilbur)   Pierre Corneille   

• The Subway, Moscow and Other Poems (trans. by Emily Grosholz and Larissa Volokhonsky)   Olga Sedakova   

• Poem of the End   Marina Tsvetaeva   
  Mary Jane White, trans.   

• Third Rome Man (trans. by F. D. Reeve)   Dimitri V.  Psurtsev   

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (trans. by John Ridland)   Anonymous Fourteenth-Century Poet   

• From Antigone (trans. by Ruth Fainlight and Robert J. Littman)   Sophocles   

• Three Poems from the Greek: Epigram by Callimachus (trans. by Edmund Keeley)   Callimachus   

• Three Poems from the Greek: Epigram by Maecius (trans. by Edmund Keeley)   Maecius   

• Three Poems from the Greek: When He Dies (trans. by Edmund Keeley)   Anonymous   

• The Creation of the World and Other Poems (trans. by Charles Martin)   G. G. Belli   

• Tangerines, My Boy, and Me; The Soy Mash Vendor (trans. by Lawrence Rogers)   Motomaro Senge   

Chronicles

• Tudor's Turn   Marcia B. Siegel   

• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   

• Spatial Aesthetics   Richard Hornby   

Reviews

• The Life and Times of Latin   Brooke Allen   

• Translation for Our Moment   Mark Jarman   

• Poetry and Dialectic   Alfred Corn   

• Literary History as Kaffeeklatsch   Tess Lewis   

• Consequences and Possibilities   Susan Balée   

Comment

• In Memoriam: Hayden Carruth (1921–2008)   David Mason