Notes on translation
I’m on an airplane, working on my translation of Kiyotsune into Italian. The beauty of the poetry is too much to take and I cannot stop the tears rolling down […]
Category Archives: Poetry
Paul Claudel
Though Claudel is not really my cup of tea – I find his work rather heavy, excessively ornate, and vaguely orientalist – I have to admit some of his passages […]
In a Station of The Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound (1913) Ezra Pound wrote this imagist poem the same year he started to review […]
