The Translation Issue 2011

The Drunken Boat ISSN: 1530-7646
Translation Issue 2011 Vol.9 Issues 1-11

“The oldest cliché in the world is about “what’s lost in translation,” but you don’t very often read much intelligent about what’s gained by translation, and the answer is everything. Our language is a compendium of translation. ”— Sam Hamill

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The 21st issue of The Drunken Boat features Poetry in Translation

From Brazil:

Lêdo Ivo

From France:

Nathalie Quintane

From Germany:

Else Lasker-Schüler

From Greece:

Kiki Dimoula

Ioulita Iliopoulou

From Lithuania:

Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė

From Mexico:

Tedi López Mills

From Spain:

David Leo García

From Switzerland:

Sabina Naef

From the U.S.:

Yankev Glatshteyn (Jacob Glatstein)

A Homage from One Translator to Another
Sam Hamill

Translators in this issue:

Johannes Beilharz

Olga Broumas

Melissa Buckheit

Wendy Burk

Brian Diamond

Sylvain Gallais

Cynthia Hogue

Julie Kane

Kerry Shawn Keys

Rima Krasauskytė

Mischa Lucyshyn

Helga Michie

Sara Sams

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Features in Previous Issues

Spring/Summer 2008:
A feature of Cave Canem poets and faculty, guest-edited by Niki Herd

Fall/Winter 2007 Contemporary Poetry and Translation from Malta. Interviews with Eleni Sikelianos and Cynthia Hogue. Feature of H.D.’s novel The Sword Went Out to Sea, new work by Sikelianos and Hogue, new translations of Roubaud, and more.

Featured Interview:

“I think of poetry in terms of individuality: what each poem does. And I would say poetry not only might create answers, but will especially provoke questions, like an exercise in doubt, an anxiety transformed into method. ” Tedi López Mills
Interviewed by Rebecca Seiferle

Selection of Poetry

by Tedi López Mills

translated by Wendy Burk.

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Featured Selections

Poems

by Yankev Glatshteyn (Jacob Glatstein)
translated by Brian Diamond.

Six Poems from, Wish For Odysseas

by Ioulita Iliopoulou
translated by Melissa Buckheit.

From “We Two” (2) (Formage)

by Nathalie Quintane
translated by Sylvain Gallais and Cynthia Hogue.

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A Translator’s Homage

Salutation

by Sam Hamill
To Burton Watson.

Featured Chapbooks

WHAT SEA?
20 Poems

by Kiki Dimoula
translated by Olga Broumas.

Requiem

by Lêdo Ivo
translated by Kerry Shawn Keys.

A SMALL COLLECTION OF LOVE POEMS

by Elsa Lasker-Schüler
translated by Johannes Beilharz.

Poems

by David Leo García
translated by Sara Sams

Selection of Poems

by Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė
translated by Julie Kane and Rima Krasauskytė, with the author.

Touch of Vertigo:
Selected Poems

by Sabina Naef
translated by Mischa Lucyshyn and Helga Michie, with the author.

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