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Three Poems by Baudelaire, translated by Richard Kutner
Portrait of Charles Baudelaire in Profile by Édouard Manet This is my last post as Author of the Week. It’s been an exciting experience. Since this is the Best American Poetry website, I’ve decided…
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Born today: Paul Violi (1944-2011)
Look for Remus in the index of a bookAnd you are bound to get “See Romulus”Which is perfectly logical but makes me wonderAbout indexes, or indices, and why I prefer the formerAs the plural…
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Mark Ford Reviews Karin Roffman on JA for “The Guardian”
<<<The American poet John Ashbery, who turns 90 this month, is often figured as the epitome of cosmopolitan sophistication – as a refined but radical innovator whose open-ended lyrics and narrative-free long poems refract and…
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Working at the Morgan [by Richard Kutner]
Last December, while searching for some volunteer translation work, I found this description from the Morgan Library and Museum, in New York, on idealist.org: This is a wonderful opportunity for an individual with a…
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“shoelace” [by Andrei Codrescu]
a real concern may turn out in a dream as “to be continued”or make you sleep soundly for being common currencysplintering off café tables where free-lance shrinkskeep office spreading patter butter out of which…
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Translating After the Roundup [by Richard Kutner]
What was it like to translate the memoir of a boy who escaped from a French-Nazi internment camp in 1942? One of my biggest challenges was recreating the exuberant, authentic voice of a scrappy…
