Dialogos: Paired Poems in Translation - Softcover

Kalogeris, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193830800X ISBN 13: 9781938308000

Publisher: Antilever Press, 2012

Synopsis

From an island in ancient Greece to a labor camp in 20th century Eastern Europe; from a lamplit Italian piazza to the dark halls of an abandoned home in Portugal―the voices rise and meet, transact and transcend. In this collection George Kalogeris takes up the challenge of literary translation with sensitivity and self-effacement―but no fear. “What we hear in a good translation is not purely that voice of somebody else but also the voice of the translator registering that effort and its delight,” notes David Ferry in his commentary. All 24 poems in this book Ferry praises as “instances of realization … instances of how this generous and self-exacting imagination registers and responds to his deep understanding of the poems he translates.” At turns heartbreaking, melancholic, exultant, speculative, irreverent, and vulgar, these dialogues render some of the most widely admired voices of Western culture―Theocritus, Sappho, Pindar, Pessoa, Celan, and Akhmatova, among others―into fresh, contemporary English. This collection will draw all lovers of poetry and ideas into what Warren calls the “fraternity of imagination” that Kalogeris has so vividly conceived. With foreword by Rosanna Warren and commentary by David Ferry.

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Poetry. Translated from many languages. Foreword by Rosanna Warren. From an island in ancient Greece to a labor camp in 20th century Eastern Europe; from a lamplit Italian piazza to the dark halls of an abandoned home in Portugal the voices rise and meet, transact and transcend. In this collection George Kalogeris takes up the challenge of literary translation with sensitivity and self-effacement but no fear. "What we hear in a good translation is not purely that voice of somebody else but also the voice of the translator registering that effort and its delight," notes David Ferry in his commentary. By turns heartbreaking, melancholic, exultant, speculative, irreverent, and vulgar, these dialogues render some of the most widely admired voices of Western culture Theocritus, Sappho, Pindar, Pessoa, Celan, and Akhmatova into fresh, contemporary English."

About the Author

George Kalogeris teaches English Literature and Classics in Translation at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of Camus: Carnets (Pressed Wafer Press, 2006), a book of poems based on the notebooks of Albert Camus. His translations have appeared recently in AGNI, Harvard Review, and Poetry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Antilever Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193830800X
• ISBN 13: 9781938308000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92