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Translating Elvis by Brian Henry
Translation apparently can be a dangerous activity. In Javier Marías’ novella Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico, a 22-year-old Spanish-born man assigned to Elvis during the making of a film in Acapulco nearly…
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Criticism’s Crisis by Brian Henry
“Les jugements sur la poésie ont plus de valeur que la poésie.” (“Judgments on poetry are more valuable than poetry.”) —Comte de Lautréamont “It is easy to treat poetry as if it were engaged…
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We Went To the Falls [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Bloved Bleaders, We just got back from Camp Inquiry — a weeklong summer camp up near Buffalo where skeptical kids can play in the woods and talk about the meaning of life and learn…
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Ben Mirov’s GHOST MACHINE [by Amy Lawless]
GHOST MACHINE by BEN MIROV Here is a recommendation/email correspondence/review of Ben Mirov’s GHOST MACHINE. It is available from Caketrain! I emailed Ben because I was really excited about his book. He…
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Loaves, Light, Chalice: Pablo Neruda’s Alturas de Macchu Picchu by Brian Henry
“The translator invades, extracts, and brings home.” —George Steiner, After Babel “Nothing takes us faster to the heart of matters linguistic and metaphysical than translation.” —Nikolai Popov, “The Literal and the Literary” Translators of…
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Adventures in Reading in Translation: Srečko Kosovel by Brian Henry
Yesterday I wrote about how chance can influence how we respond to a poet’s work—specifically, how the first book we read by a poet in translation can become our favorite even though there are…
