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Tag Archives: Translation
The New Era of Engaged Literature
The New Era of Engaged Literature by Okla Elliott When I was fourteen years old, I naively and ignorantly and perhaps over-seriously declared myself a Marxist. It was around this time that I also began considering myself a writer, though … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Beauvoir, Black Flag, MFA, political literature, Sartre, Translation, Žižek
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A Review of Lena Divani’s Seven Lives and One Great Love: Memoirs of a Cat
A Review of Lena Divani’s Seven Lives and One Great Love: Memoirs of a Cat Translated from the Greek by Konstantinos Matsoukas By Jennifer Dane Clements Forget, for a moment, the ubiquitous internet cats. Put aside the grumpy one, the … Continue reading
Posted in At the Margins, Review
Tagged animal narrators, anthrozoology, At the Margins, cats, Europa Editions, Fiction, Greek translation, internet cats, internet memes, Jennifer Dane Clements, Konstantinos Matsoukas, Lena Divani, Review, Seven Lives and One Great Love: Memoirs of a Cat, Translation
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FRIDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: PAUL CELAN
SPEECH-GRILLE by PAUL CELAN Eye-orb between the bars. Ciliary lid rows upwards, releases a gaze. Iris, swimmer, dreamless and dim: the sky, heart-gray, must be near. Skew, in the iron socket, the smoldering splinter. By the sense of light you … Continue reading
Erlking
[The following translation was originally published in Per Contra.] Erlking by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (translation by Okla Elliott) Who rides so late through windy night? A father holding his child tight. He has the youngster well in his arm, … Continue reading
Posted in Okla Elliott
Tagged ballad, Faust, German literature, Goethe, Poetry, Romantic poetry, Translation
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An Uneasy Revelry: a review of Before Saying Any of the Great Words
An Uneasy Revelry by Okla Elliott “Unease in the ochre-filled skies, unease in the silky /labyrinth of the gut, unease / in the artist’s double, triple nibs” —David Huerta, “Song of Unease” Since many American readers may not be familiar … Continue reading
Posted in Okla Elliott
Tagged Book Review, Copper Canyon Press, David Huerta, Mexican poetry, Translation
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“The Inevitable Waits” by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
THE INEVITABLE WAITS (translated by Daniele Pantano) The inevitable waits It’s not coming. You are You are the mouse. So Don’t be a hero When for the fearless Even the avoidable Is unavoidable Fear. Stay human What belongs to you, … Continue reading
Toward a Coherent Vision of the 20th Century—Or, Why Jorge Volpi Is My New Favorite Novelist
Season of Ash by Jorge Volpi (translated by Alfred MacAdam) Open Letter / University of Rochester Press ISBN: 978-1-934824-10-8 Jorge Volpi’s Season of Ash is the kind of novel that reminds me why I read novels in the first place, … Continue reading
