The Book of Things [Why This Book Should Win the BTBA]
Starting this week, we’ll be highlighting the five finalists in the poetry category for the BTBA. Similar to what we did for the fiction longlist, these will be framed by the question: “Why should this book win?” Click here for all past and future posts in this series. Today’s post is by poetry committee member ...
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"Scale and Stairs" by Heeduk Ra [BTBA 2010 Poetry Finalists]
Over the next six days, we’ll be featuring each of the ten titles from this year’s Best Translated Book Award poetry shortlist. Click here for all past write-ups. Scale and Stairs by Heeduk Ra. Translated from the Korean by Woo-Chung Kim and Christopher Merrill. (Korea, White Pine Press) This guest post ...
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"K.B. The Suspect" by Marcelijus Martinaitis [BTBA 2010 Poetry Finalists]
Over the next seven days, we’ll be featuring each of the ten titles from this year’s Best Translated Book Award poetry shortlist. Click here for all past write-ups. K.B. The Suspect by Marcelijus Martinaitis. Translated from the Lithuania by Laima Vince. (Lithuania, White Pine Press) This guest post is ...
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Upcoming Events Pt. II: Has the US Lost Touch with World Literature?
If only teleporting was cheap, and, you know, possible . . . Friday, January 23, 2009 7:00pm – 9:00pm Housing Works Bookstore Café 126 Crosby Street New York, NY Panelists Esther Allen, translator, former co-director of PEN World Voices, author of International PEN report on Translation and Globalization; ...
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Latest Review: New European Poets
Our latest review is Margarita Shalina’s piece on New European Poets, a mammoth, important anthology recently released by Graywolf and edited by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer. As Margarita (who works at St. Mark’s Bookshop and translates from Russian) writes: It is difficult to get beyond the novelty ...
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New European Poets
Where is that wild and endemic high-heeled shoe Europe . . . ? — Branko Cegec (translated from the Croatian by Miljenko Kovacicek) It is difficult to get beyond the novelty inherent in the New European Poets project. Its remarkable scope, breadth and depth show-cases 290 poets representing 45 nations, all ...
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