http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/01/more-cavafy/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/01/more-cavafy/#comment-2548 Alicia (AE) Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:12:49 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=677#comment-2548 Oh, no... I am not planning to translate Cavafy. I mean, I do translate the odd poem, mostly to understand it better myself. I've done versions of The City, The Horses of Achilles, Walls & The Souls of Old Men. As far as translating goes, I'm pretty exclusively interested in the rhyming poems, as I feel the unrhymed ones have already been very well served by translators. I don't know whether this sounds crazy or not, but I actually turned down an opportunity to translate Sappho for a publisher... again, I guess I feel she is pretty well served and I didn't feel I had much to add there. Though I have done a loose version of the Anaktoria ode. I'll e-mail it to you! Oh, no… I am not planning to translate Cavafy. I mean, I do translate the odd poem, mostly to understand it better myself. I’ve done versions of The City, The Horses of Achilles, Walls & The Souls of Old Men. As far as translating goes, I’m pretty exclusively interested in the rhyming poems, as I feel the unrhymed ones have already been very well served by translators.
I don’t know whether this sounds crazy or not, but I actually turned down an opportunity to translate Sappho for a publisher… again, I guess I feel she is pretty well served and I didn’t feel I had much to add there. Though I have done a loose version of the Anaktoria ode. I’ll e-mail it to you!
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/01/more-cavafy/#comment-2547 Mary Meriam Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:42:13 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=677#comment-2547 Sorry if I missed it somewhere, but Alicia, does this mean you are translating Cavafy? If so, maybe you could give us a sample? Maybe while you're at it, you could do a little Sappho translation? Thanks for this post - amazing how much formalism we're missing in translations. Sorry if I missed it somewhere, but Alicia, does this mean you are translating Cavafy? If so, maybe you could give us a sample? Maybe while you’re at it, you could do a little Sappho translation? Thanks for this post – amazing how much formalism we’re missing in translations.
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