Experiments in translation: Montale translates Hardy, and I translate Montale's translation of Hardy. I love Montale as a poet; I think I love him a little less as a translator (but isn't that, as Levi* states, a common occurence?). In this section called experiments in translation, I will try to translate Montale’s translation of Hardy’s…Read more Experiments in translation: Hardy, Montale & me
Poets translating poets
Montale and Yeats: Poets translating Poets
When you are old (1892) William Butler Yeats When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved…Read more Montale and Yeats: Poets translating Poets
Franco Fortini: Translating Brecht, 1959
Traducendo Brecht Franco Fortini Un grande temporale per tutto il pomeriggio si è attorcigliato sui tetti prima di rompere in lampi, acqua. Fissavo versi di cemento e di vetro dov’erano grida e piaghe murate e membra anche di me, cui sopravvivo. Con cautela, guardando ora i tegoli battagliati ora la pagina secca, ascoltavo morire…Read more Franco Fortini: Translating Brecht, 1959
Poets translating poets: Patrizia Sardisco & Julia Leverone
On Mothering ©Julia Leverone Grown diverted to light on water, pine boughs hang like wings, their tufts soft-skirted meanwhile root cling and anti-gravity strain. Mother, when my father steadied me as I walked sliding stones, forging the hip-deep river— understand that fathering is a quieter endeavor. But earlier: were we not sisters, dressed in…Read more Poets translating poets: Patrizia Sardisco & Julia Leverone
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