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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…
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& Is There a Bridge Where the Displaced Go After They’re Gone?: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Zeina Hashem Beck’s Louder than Hearts
Louder than HeartsZeina Hashem BeckBauhan Publishing, 2017 Zeina Hashem Beck’s second full-length collection, Louder than Hearts, begins with the lines: “I write in English the way I roam foreign cities—full of street light/ &…
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Translating Fear of Paradise [by Richard Kutner]
Translating Fear of ParadiseLike any translation, Fear of Paradise was an artistic endeavor and an act of creation. As always, I needed to maintain the author's tone and voice and make the book sound as…
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What Does a Translator Do? by Richard Kutner
It is a great honor to have been invited by The Best American Poetry to be their author of the week. Translators do not get much respect. In Italian, they even say, “Traduttore, traditore,”…
