A curation of selected readings from the international poetry index. Groups of translated poetry that seem to fit together whether through common origin, language, or some other aesthetic or semantic function.
Category: Selected Readings
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Arabic Poetry in English Translation
Explore arabic poetry through 12 books that move among several regions, historical shifts, formal experiment, and different translators.
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Poetry Translated by Don Mee Choi
Read Poetry Translated by Don Mee Choi through 9 books that reveal collaboration, changing source poets, recurring syntax, and the translator’s visible choices.
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Poetry Translated by Ilya Kaminsky
Explore ilya kaminsky through 5 books that move among distinct poets, recurring translation decisions, collaboration, and shifts in voice.
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Friendship Poems in Translation
Explore friendship poems through 7 books that move among intimacy, political pressure, formal difference, and emotional contradiction.
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Poetry Translated by Piotr Florczyk
Read Poetry Translated by Piotr Florczyk through 8 books that reveal collaboration, changing source poets, recurring syntax, and the translator’s visible choices.
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Dream Poems in Translation
Explore dream poems through 12 books that move among intimacy, political pressure, formal difference, and emotional contradiction.
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Poetry Translated by Marilyn Hacker
Explore marilyn hacker through 12 books that move among distinct poets, recurring translation decisions, collaboration, and shifts in voice.