You refuse to melt completely.
TRANSLATION – Poetry by Benny Andersen and Marianne Koluda Hansen
I shouldn’t let myself be reduced to a sex-object because then the capitalists can manipulate me with impunity
TRANSLATION – Poetry from The Silence of Love (님의 침묵(沈默)) by Han Yong-un
I am a clumsy painter. As I lay unvisited by sleep I drew my finger to my chest and sketched your nose, mouth, and even...
TRANSLATION – A Big Smoker by Esther Cross
He was coming back. He looked at the ash with his eyes half closed, as if he were calculating the mouthful of smoke he was...
TRANSLATION -Selected Poetry from the Old French, Occitan, and Langue d’Oc
Out of the new season's smooth sweets Trees break into leaves, birds into song, Each in its own odd tongue of tweets, In verse which...
TRANSLATION – Five Poems From Fjalir (Planks) By Tóroddur Poulsen
With Fjalir (Planks, 2013), a collection of poetry and woodcut prints, Tóroddur Poulsen earned the Faroese nomination for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2014....
TRANSLATION – By Night We Howl by Care Santos
I ask myself why he doesn’t hear them. Why only me. I feel somewhat panicked about surviving, about ending up alone. I don’t want to...
TRANSLATION – Three Brazil and the World Cup By Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Nelson Rodrigues, and Ruy Castro
Blessed are those who, after hearing this sermon, may apply all of their childish fervor on their mature breasts to wish victory to the Brazilian...
TRANSLATION – A Lecture With Pevear and Volokhonsky
God is in the details!” declared Volokhonsky. “Some say it’s the devil,” Pevear added.
TRANSLATION – Last Word by Alexander Kuprin
I killed him in sound mind and clear memory, killed him conscientiously, with conviction, cold-heartedly, without a shred of remorse, fear or doubt. If it...
Interview with Translator Robert Chandler
If a joke is to survive the journey into another language, if it is to hit the mark even when its cultural context can no...