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Translation as Relation: Form, Silence, and Creative Reimagining in M. L. Martin’s “W&E, a refracted translation of Wulf and Eadwacer”
M. L. Martin’s “W&E” is a radical translation of the mysterious Anglo-Saxon poem “Wulf and Eadwacer.” The original is a very short yet highly ambiguous Old English poem, preserved only in the Exeter Codex, a manuscript dating to around the tenth century. Martin’s “W&E” belongs to the same lineage as Anne Carson’s “Nox,” where translation is experimented radically across genres and language, blending poetry, memory, visual arts, and fragmented syntax to embody the multiplicity in sensibility and meaning.
Parallel Lines Can Converge: Víctor Rodríguez Núñez’s “from a red barn,” Translated from Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen
By Conor Bracken Although from a red barn by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez and translated by Katherine M. Hedeen (co•im•press, 2020) was originally published in Spanish in 2014, it comes to an Anglophone public at an opportune time. Consisting of 77 sonnets, it immediately invites itself to the table that Terrance Hayes’s American Sonnets for My […]
Art and Politics: María Negroni’s “The Annunciation,” translated by Michelle Gil-Montero
In this deeply philosophical, semi-autobiographical novel, acclaimed Argentine poet Negroni explores a question that has figured in her writing for decades: the relationship between the aesthetic and the ethical, the poetic and the political.