Today’s a day to celebrate all kinds of love, and here are some poems for it that you’ve probably never seen. Rumi’s Persian work is very well known and loved in the English-speaking world, but he also wrote in Arabic.…
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Rumi’s greatest love
Tagged with: Anthony A. Lee, Arabic, Love is my Savior, Michigan State University Press, Nesreen Akharkhavari, Persian, Poetry, Rumi, Translation, Valentine's Day
Posted in books, faith, poetry, translation
Posted in books, faith, poetry, translation
A seed, knocking
A Mordovian winter seems endless, especially if you are going to see seven of them in succession, and not by choice. But under the snow, a seed is knocking: This strong collection of poems from Latvian writer Knuts Skujenieks, could not be…
Tagged with: Bitite Vinklers, Knuts Skujenieks, Latvian, Poetry, Seed in Snow, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
A new year’s resolution: translate more poetry
After three days of the new year, how are your resolutions shaping up? There’s still time to make a new one, and join the Poetry Translation Centre in translating some amazing poetry from around the world. You can join the PTC…
Tagged with: Bernard O'Donoghue, Choman Hardi, Dari, Dilawar KAradahi, Hindi, Kurdish, Lucy Rosenstein, Mohan Rana, New Year's resolutions, Partaw Naderi, Poetry, Poetry Translation Centre, Sara Maguire, Yama Yari
Posted in international, poetry, translation
Posted in international, poetry, translation
The White Islands
This is a book for anyone whose parents or grandparents came from somewhere else, especially if they did not move by choice. White Islands/Las Islas Blancas is a beautiful bilingual edition of Agosín’s poetry and Nanfito’s translations, brimming with memories handed down…
Tagged with: books, Jacqueline Nanfito, Ladino, Marjorie Agosín, Poetry, Sephardic Jews, Spanish, The White Islands, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
waiting for Christmas, Japanese style
Sometimes reading a new book is like meeting a new friend. Chika Sagawa was born over a century ago, and this new volume of her writing is slim, but it was enough to seal the friendship for me. It may…
Tagged with: Chika Sagawa, Collected Poems, Japanese, modernism, PEN, Poetry, Sawako Nakayasu, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
points of gold in the dark
The first Mongolian poetry book in English translation to be published in the US after The End of the Dark Era – it’s no surprise it’s from Phoneme. Tseveendorjin Oidov, like so many artists in the Soviet sphere of influence,…
Tagged with: Buddhism, modernism, Mongolian, Poetry, Simon Wickhamsmith, The End of the Dark Era, Tranlsation, Tseveendorjin Oidov
Posted in books, history, poetry, translation
Posted in books, history, poetry, translation
Night-Sky Checkerboard
Phoneme Media has done it again. Oh Saw-Young’s Night-Sky Checkerboard looks simple enough – an elegant slim volume of bilingual poetry from a language not many people would be able to read otherwise; Korean. The powerful juxtapositions of natural imagery reminded me of Regentonnenvariationen.…
Tagged with: books, Brother Anthony of Taizé, Korean, Night-Sky Checker Board, Oh Sae-Young, Phoneme Media, Poetry, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
We need more Akhmatova
With some books, you have to be ready.This poet is one of Russia’s best, but it took me this long to sit down and read her. It’s time you did, too. Anna Akhmatova’s Selected Poems in Richard McKane’s English translation…
Tagged with: Anna Akhmatova, Bloodaxe Books, Poetry, Richard McKane, Russian, Translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, faith, history, literature, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, faith, history, literature, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Rilke Shake
Two! Brazilian women in English translation on the ALTA national translation award long list. Is it the Olympic effect? Clarice Lispector is a heavyweight contender, but here’s something new, featherlight and deft from the south. It probably weighs less than…
Tagged with: Angélica Freitas, Brazil, BTBA 2016, Hilary Kaplan, NTA long list, Phoneme Media, Poetry, Portuguese, Queer, Rilke Shake, Translation
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, gender, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, gender, poetry, translation, Women in Translation Month
Sur’s Ocean
“What poet, hearing the poems Sur has made, would not nod his head in pleasure?” (Nabhadas). Swim in the ocean of his words, or down-river from his source, in this stout annotated volume of just over 400 of the thousands…
Tagged with: Devanagari, India, John Stratton Hawley, Kenneth Bryant, Murty Classical Library, Old Hindi, Poetry, Sur's Ocean, Surdas, Translation
Posted in books, faith, poetry, translation
Posted in books, faith, poetry, translation
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