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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,”…
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Richard Kutner, Guest Author July 17-21
This week we're thrilled to welcome Richard Kutner as our guest author. Richard graduated from Yale University with a major in French Literature. His translations from French to English include After the Roundup: Escape…
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Pleuroncodes planipes [by Lily Bowen]
All my exes wish they lived by the ocean.We wear boots on the firm sand as youblend in, lack of color,blue and gray liquid revolving,I think maybe I could live here toofor a while.…
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“How America Gets in Trouble Overseas” [by Bruce Isaacson]
On the day I went to visit Dostoevsky's grave…it rained. It rained that cold & constant Petrograd rainthat gets between your bones and the meat. I thought to get out of the rainat the…
