Dialogos: Paired Poems in Translation

Poetry Review: “Dialogos” — Superb Poetic Conversations

November 9, 2012
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Translator George Kalogeris’s modernizing does what it should: It brings the poems into the thought-world where modern readers live.

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Poetry Review: A “Memorial” Written in a Voice That Does Not Break

September 23, 2012
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Alice Oswald’s “Memorial” begins with a list of 214 names, a bare, sorrowful cousin to the ship’s roll. If you know the old stories, you’ll begin to recognize some names, and then start to look forward to others.

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