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The Mysteries of Translation“Tang poet Li Bai wrote his poem 'Parting at Changgan' in the eighth century....How could a translator bridge such immense distances without confusing or burdening readers, while also honoring the original? Part of the joy—and the difficulty—of translating Li Bai is creating access to otherwise potentially impossible (sometimes even to us, the translators) ideas, lines, and references.”viaAGNI |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Tracy Zeman on Susan Howe's "The Nonconformist's Memorial"“Howe’s techniques create an altered world that a reader can step into and attempt to decipher. In the act of reading, we enter into the act of making. I loved the mystery in that process and the reader-work involved as we participate in the unraveling of established histories and the un-silencing that results....She both implicates the existing narrative and reconfigures it to create space for others." |
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