The Aeneid, Books I-VI, translated by David Hadbawnik – Shearsman Books. 2015. Paperback. 222pp. By Aaron Poochigian "The translation simultaneously undercuts the gravity of Roman...
TRANSLATION – Poems by Andrey Bely and Alexander Blok, Translated by Max Thompson
Autumn by Andrey Bely My fingers slipped out of your hands. You’re walking away with a frown. Look how the birch trees have strewn...
TRANSLATION — Four Poems by Ronny Someck, translated by Avia Tadmor
Niva I saw her once taking off her shirt. Her bra was the color of a shack in the immigrant camp. I exaggerate when I...
3 Mistranslations of Georg Trakl by Umair Kazi, David Lee, and Beca Alderete Baca
Jar by David Lee Dunk all stilly, the kind heat. Underground etching, wide debt dies and mutt, blue lichen licks golden rue and dunks and...
TRANSLATION – A Mortgage of the Moon by Sara Shagufta, Translated by Asad Alvi
A Mortgage of the Moon Our tears were given eyes we wrangled with our vivacity and became our own bans The hollering of stars reaches...
TRANSLATION – Fishhooks by Renée Vivien, translated by Cara Dees
Fishhooks One day, a Scotsman, a childhood friend, showed me his collection of fishhooks. “Look,” he said. “This is a real museum. These fishhooks you...
TRANSLATION – Sappho, Horace, Heraclitus, Alcaeus, and Callimachus
The earth is freshly dug, and the leaves wave and drop from garlands draped about the grave. Traveller, come, let’s read the stone and find...
TRANSLATION – 5 Poems from Everything Shimmers by Naja Marie Aidt
I lie in an alley I've lost a shoe do you remember a peach, a cup, a slamming window do you remember do you remember...
TRANSLATION – Poetry by Magnús Sigurðsson from Cold Moons (Tími kaldra mána)
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...