from Poetry, Feb. 1965
from a note on translation at the opening of Star Wars: A New Hope—Manga, illustrated by Hisao Tamaki
“It’s been frequently said that translation is a form of betrayal: it is a traduction, a reconstitution made of sacrifice and revision. One bails to keep the boat afloat. However, we don’t have to give up everything…The central ideas of the stanza, provided we have a proper hold on them, can be transported without loss.”
—from Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation by William H. Gass
“The Lady Poets with Foot Notes” by Ernest Hemingway, published in Der Querschnitt (November 1924).
UPDATE: Poetry & Harriet delve into the identities of the six “Lady Poets”
from Antigonick translated by Anne Carson, illustrated by Bianca Stone, designed by Robert Currie
“Further complicating matters is the fact that our vehicle for discovery is the work we’re trying to create.”
—from Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi
Terril Jones’ 2009 photo of the Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”
Walt Whitman Park, Brooklyn
Bolaji Badejo as the xenomorph in Alien (1979)
via nevver
from MONOLITHOS by Jack Gilbert
“The Perfect Human” (1967) by Jørgen Leth
