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Book Review: “The Word Exchange” — A Generous Gift

For everyone who feels the attraction but lacks the study, THE WORD EXCHANGE is a huge gift. It’s the most generous sampling I’ve seen of poetry translated from Old English and collected in one volume.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, World Books Tagged: Anglo-Saxon Poems, Greg Delanty, Michael Matto, The Word Exchange, translation

Poetry Review: Zagajewski 6.0

If the verse in UNSEEN HAND refuses triumphant fictions, there is an attentive, persevering dignity in its preference for seriality. Because these recurring poems recreate our being in the world, they are powerful tools for returning to it.

By: Daniel Bosch Filed Under: Books, World Books Tagged: Adam Zagajewski, Poetry, Polish, translation, Unseen Hand

Fuse Poetry Commentary: Verse Into Verse — “Poetry” Awards Poetry a Prize

In the future, when a literary historian looks at the long-forgotten Lilly Prize and wonders what did its selection panels get right, it will be recognized that it had been sensitive and intelligent enough to realize the beauty of David Ferry’s poetry, an oeuvre which is sure to grow in stature. By Daniel Bosch. In […]

By: Daniel Bosch Filed Under: Books Tagged: American poetry, David Ferry, Poetry, Poetry Foundation, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, translation

Book Review: Of Childhood and State Terror

Set in the beginning of the “Dirty War” of Jorge Rafael Videla’s military junta in Argentina, a period characterized by assassination and disappearance, “Kamchatka” is a superb novel that refracts public, political events through the sensibilities of everyday life. Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras. Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne. Black Kat, Grove/Atlantic, 311 pages […]

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books Tagged: Argentina, fiction, Kamchatka, Marcelo Figueras, state terror, translation

Book Review: The Préversities of Jacques Prévert — Enthusiastically Translated

Norman Shapiro’s enthusiasm as a translator is felt not only in the versions themselves but also in his introduction and notes. He relishes finding equivalents for Jacques Prévert’s rhyming, which induces him to take some justifiable liberties in regard to the original. The volume is a true labor of love. Préversities: A Jacques Prévert Sampler […]

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books Tagged: french, Jacques Prévert, Norman-Shapiro, Poetry, Préversities, translation

Book Commentary: Summer Reads for Adventurous Minds

Poetry’s secret, it seems to me, consists of two ingredients: a love of this world and a curiosity about metaphysics. – Durs Grünbein, The Bars of Atlantis I resist the idea that books for the beach have to go down as easy as piña coladas. My eccentric and eclectic list of fiction and non-fiction in […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Aharon Appelfeld, Albert Cossery, Alejandro Zambra, Antal Szerb, Books, Dubravka-Ugresic, Durs Grünbein, fiction-in-translation, José Saramago, Karl O. Knausgaard, nonfiction-in-translation, Patrik Ouředník, translation, World Books, Yoko Ogawa

World Books Review: Strange Articulations of Being Human

(I am one of the judges for the Best Translated Book Award (fiction division) sponsored by Three Percent. The five finalists will be announced in New York on February 16th. Three Percent honcho Chad Post needed help to meet his goal of posting a commentary on each of the 25 volumes on the BTB’s fiction […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Ferenc Barnás, fiction, Hungarian, The Ninth, translation

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