{"id":290976,"date":"2012-06-26T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/06\/26\/latest-review-the-deleted-world-by-tomas-transtromer\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:50","slug":"latest-review-the-deleted-world-by-tomas-transtromer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/06\/26\/latest-review-the-deleted-world-by-tomas-transtromer\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "The Deleted World" by Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest review<\/a> to our Reviews Section<\/a> is a piece by Tim Nassau<\/a> on Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer\u2019s The Deleted World<\/i>, which is available from Farrar, Straus and Giroux<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This book promises to be an interesting read. Take a look at Tim’s review to see why:<\/p>\n

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Swedish poet Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer\u2019s winning the Nobel Prize brought to light a rare bit of translation gossip: that there\u2019s bad blood between a few of his translators. And as there should be\u2014a lot of people suddenly want to buy Transtr\u00f6mer\u2019s poetry; of the five plus out there, which book are you going to get? The Deleted World<\/i>, Scottish poet Robin Robertson\u2019s \u201cversions\u201d of Transtr\u00f6mer\u2019s poems (Robertson doesn\u2019t like to call them \u201ctranslations\u201d), is the controversial one. Its first American publication at the end of last year, half a decade after it originally appeared from Enitharmon Press in Britain, drew new attention to the paper war abroad. In the introduction to the slim volume of fifteen poems from across Transtr\u00f6mer\u2019s career, Robertson makes it clear, \u201cThe free versions in The Deleted World<\/i> were never intended as literal translations.\u201d Not free enough for some. As David Orr chronicled in March in the New York Times Book Review<\/i>, Robin Fulton, also a Scottish poet-translator of Transtr\u00f6mer, and who does speak Swedish, \u201caccused Robertson (who doesn\u2019t speak Swedish) of borrowing from his more faithful versions while inserting superfluous bits of Robertson\u2019s own creation \u2014 in essence, creating poems that are neither accurate translations nor interesting departures.\u201d Robertson has barbs of his own: in reference to other Transtr\u00f6mer collections, he dubs Samuel Charter\u2019s Baltics<\/i> a \u201cgood reading\u201d and Robert Bly\u2019s The Half-Finished Heaven<\/i> \u201ca strong American selection,\u201d while Fulton\u2019s Collected Poems<\/i> is a delightfully back-handed \u201cuseful.\u201d Good for a gloss, but get your poetry elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click here<\/a> to read the entire review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest review to our Reviews Section is a piece by Tim Nassau on Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer\u2019s The Deleted World, which is available from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book promises to be an interesting read. Take a look at Tim’s review to see why: Swedish poet Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer\u2019s winning the Nobel Prize brought to light […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67456],"tags":[17726,1646,47756,47746,6436,47736,23996,42966],"class_list":["post-290976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-farrar-straus-and-giroux","tag-review","tag-robin-fulton","tag-robin-robertson","tag-swedish-literature","tag-the-deleted-world","tag-tim-nassau","tag-tomas-transtromer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311256,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290976\/revisions\/311256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}