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By Richard ZenithFernando Pessoa's most restless, extravagant, and prolific heteronym, Álvaro de Campos was supposedly born in 1890 (two years after Pessoa), attended university in Glasgow, sailed around the Far ...Translator’s Notes
By David WheatleySeán Ó Ríordáin’s “Malairt” (“Switch”) is a poem all about transformations. Piero di Cosimo was in the habit of painting human faces on animals (as in The Forest Fire), and in “Switch” Ó Ríordáin explores ...Translator’s Notes
By John William NarinsBoth as an active organizer of poetic life and as a creator of texts, Lev Oborin is increasingly a force in Russia’s contemporary poetic landscape. What appeals to me particularly in his work is ...Translator’s Notes
By Gwyneth LewisTranslating Dafydd ap Gwilym into anything but a line-by-line prose gloss is an extreme technical challenge. You can see the magisterial new edition of Dafydd ap Gwilym’s poems complete, with free...Translator’s Notes
By Tom KuhnT.S. Eliot, writing on Tennyson, found in him the three qualities that make a great poet: abundance, variety, and complete technical competence. Brecht is a great poet, one of the three or four best...Translator’s Notes
By Jennifer GrotzIn the United States, Jerzy Ficowski is best known as the author of Regions of the Great Heresy, the foundational work of literary biography and criticism of the writer and artist Bruno Schulz, shot by the...Translator’s Notes
By Katherine M. HedeenVíctor Rodríguez Núñez, born in Havana in 1955, is one of Cuba’s most outstanding and celebrated contemporary writers. Collections of his poetry appear throughout Latin America and Europe, and he...Translator’s Notes
By Suji Kwock KimA recent article in The Korea Times comments, “If there is a national poet, it may well be Ko Un.” The intersection of personal and national history, in his case, is both ordinary and extraordinary. As a boy...Translator’s Notes
By Rosanna WarrenMax Jacob’s verse poems are dissonant and hybrid, mingling traditional metrics and free verse, with irregular punctuation, clashing registers of diction, and cockeyed allusions, puns, and cliches...Translator’s Notes
By Valzhyna MortGrigori Dashevsky and I discussed my translation of his poem “Ithaca” in May of 2013. In July, having reviewed fresh corrections, he signed a publication contract with Poetry. In December, after a long illness...Translator’s Notes
By Tony HoaglandThe original author of “The Ruins of Timoleague Abbey” is Seán Ó Coileáin (1754–1817), an Irish poet and scribe born in County Cork. Collins — as his name would probably be contemporized — was educated...Translator’s Notes
By Zackary Sholem BergerIn 1973, the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever, after ghetto survival, guerilla warfare, and post-war wandering, began publishing what he called his “Diary Poems” (“Lider fun togbukh”) in the literary...Translator’s Notes
By Maia EvronaBetween 1941 and 1944, the SS, along with local Lithuanian collaborators, shot roughly seventy thousand to one hundred thousand people, the vast majority of whom were Jews, in large pits at Ponar...Translator’s Notes
By Mary Ann CawsIn Yves Bonnefoy’s remarkable poetic prose of Le Grand Espace, concerning the Louvre and its Great Space in all its complications—of placing, maintaining, viewing—he cites one of Poussin’s lessons, perhaps the most ...Translator’s Notes
By A.E. StallingsDespite the neo-con vision of early liberty-loving patriots in the film 300, Ancient Sparta was a totalitarian state which depended upon an enslaved population of Helots. Still, it is hard not to find its ...