{"id":276606,"date":"2010-02-17T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/02\/17\/btba-2010-the-poetry-finalists\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:39:39","slug":"btba-2010-the-poetry-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/02\/17\/btba-2010-the-poetry-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"BTBA 2010: The Poetry Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

As mentioned before, we didn’t announce a poetry longlist mainly because there were only 50-some-odd books eligible for this year’s award, and name-checking half of them would seem to dilute the award . . . <\/p>\n

That’s not to say that there weren’t a ton of great collections in translation that came out last year worthy of a little extra attention. In fact, I’m sure the poetry judges could name an addition half-dozen that could’ve made the list in a different year . . .<\/p>\n

But anyway, here are the 10 titles that the fantastic people on this year’s poetry panel selected as the finalists:<\/p>\n

Nicole Brossard, Selections.<\/b> Translated from the French by various.1<\/a><\/sup> (Canada, University of California)<\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9 Char, The Brittle Age and Returning Upland.<\/b> Translated from the French by Gustaf Sobin. (France, Counterpath)<\/p>\n

Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another.<\/b> Translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah (Palestine, FSG<\/span>)<\/p>\n

Elena Fanailova, The Russian Version.<\/b> Translated from the Russian by Genya Turovskaya and Stephanie Sandler. (Russia, Ugly Duckling Presse)<\/p>\n

Hiromi Ito, Killing Kanoko.<\/b> Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. (Japan, Action Books)<\/p>\n

Marcelijus Martinaitis, KB: The Suspect.<\/b> Translated from the Lithuanian by Laima Vince. (Lithuania, White Pine)<\/p>\n

Heeduk Ra, Scale and Stairs.<\/b> Translated from the Korean by Woo-Chung Kim and Christopher Merrill. (Korea, White Pine)<\/p>\n

Novica Tadic, Dark Things.<\/b> Translated from the Serbian by Charles Simic. (Serbia, BOA<\/span> Editions)<\/p>\n

Liliana Ursu, Lightwall.<\/b> Translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter. (Romania, Zephyr Press)<\/p>\n

Wei Ying-wu, In Such Hard Times.<\/b> Translated from the Chinese by Red Pine. (China, Copper Canyon)<\/p>\n

Similar to the fiction longlist, there’s a great deal of country balance here, and a lot of small press love. (Go White Pine and Zephyr!) <\/p>\n

Similar to what we did for the fiction titles, starting next week, we’ll be featuring a book a day from this list, with all the write-ups being written by the esteemed panelists (Brandon Holmquest, Jennifer Kronovet, Idra Novey, Kevin Prufer, and Matthew Zapruder). <\/p>\n

And as with the BTBA<\/span> for fiction, the winner will be announced on March 10th at an event that will take place at Idlewild Books. <\/p>\n

1<\/sup> Here’s the complete list, which is really too long to include above without ruining the whole aesthetic of this post: Guy Bennett, David Dea, Barbara Godard, Pierre Joris, Robert Majzels and Erin Moure, Jennifer Moxley, Lucille Nelson, Larry Shouldice, Fred Wah, Lisa Weil, and Anne-Marie Wheeler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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