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Three Percent 2014 Best Translated Book Awards: Poetry Finalists

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Jacob Edmond

Three Percent has just announced the poetry finalists for 2014 Best Translated Book Awards. Check out the great lineup here.

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Endarkenment by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

I am overjoyed that Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s selected poems, Endarkenment, is now officially forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky, I hope and trust that this, sadly, posthumous collection will open the eyes of a new and broader English-speaking … Continue reading →

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Cosima Bruno on Yang Lian’s Poetry through Translation

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

I’d like to draw your attention to a book published by Cosima Bruno and described below, entitled Between the Lines: Yang Lian’s Poetry through Translation. Bruno’s book makes a case for studying translations as a method of reading poetry. I’m … Continue reading →

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Prigov’s visual poems in English

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

I’m very excited that someone is finally having a go at translating Dmitri Prigov’s Stikhogrammy into English. Kristin Reed is a braver soul than me, and it’s wonderful to see her translations of what she terms Prigov’s Versographies published in the … Continue reading →

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Stephanie Sandler translates Elena Fanailova

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

Stephanie Sandler’s translation of Russian poet Elena Fanailova’s poem “Lena i Lena” (“Lena and Lena”) has just gone up as a feature on Jacket2. Sandler introduces her translation by mapping out beautifully how Fanailova’s work undoes the false binary of … Continue reading →

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Yang Lian and John Cayley’s Iterations

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

The long poem “Dahai tingzhi zhi chu” 大海停止之处 by Yang Lian 杨炼 and its transformation into the collaborative digital and performance piece Where the Sea Stands Still illustrate an iterative response to digital technologies and globalization. The iterative structure of … Continue reading →

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Iteration and Jonathan Stalling’s Yíngēlìshī

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

“Like Place’s iterations of Gone with the Wind, Jonathan Stalling’s Yíngēlìshī 吟歌丽诗 also takes as its impetus the copying of another text and also addresses racial stereotyping and the negative attitude toward accents and dialects of English that differ from … Continue reading →

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Michael Heim

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

I have been meaning to write for some time now about Michael Heim, the scholar, translator, and UCLA professor who died at the end of September. Michael was not just a brilliant linguist, translator, reader, and writer. He was also––as … Continue reading →

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Revolution with a Twist: Kamau Brathwaite

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

I have begun what will be a series of posts on the poetics of iteration for Jacket2 under four broad headings: revolution, copyright, translation, and the book. My first post is on “Revolution with a Twist” and draws on the … Continue reading →

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Poetry and Translation

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

Ka Mate Ka Ora: A New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics has a new special issue devoted to poetry and translation, which you can read here. The issue includes translations, commentaries, and essays on translation from a number of … Continue reading →

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