Richard Howard Brings Mallarme For A Beer
The Center for the Art of Translation hosts a once a month Lit & Lunch series in a large artists’ …
Category Archives: Books
Morning Bird Songs: Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Transtromer, the recently Nobel Laureated poet from Sweden, writes luminescent gems, perhaps cut with different facets in Robert Bly’s …
Snow: A Novel from Turkey – Orhan Pamuk
Snow in Turkey? And for three days, non stop? Who from the lands outside the greater Middle East would imagine …
“It’s Time,” a Poem by Zhu Yufu, Gets Him Seven Years
It’s time, people of China! It’s time. The Square belongs to everyone. With your own two feet It’s time to …
The Red and The Black: Love and Ambition in a time of Revolution
If it has been years since you attended to Stendhal’s great novel, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of …
Dreamers — Siegfried Sassoon
I’ve been reading Pat Barker’s well thought of trilogy, Regeneration [Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road] about …
“Night” by Elie Wiesel — Re-Reading
I’ve been re-reading Eli Wiesel’s ground breaking, terrible, memoir, Night, this last week, along with a niece in 9th grade, …
Heron God
I wondered as I watched the Great Blue Heron fishing if he had a god , and if so …
Translation: Dancers at the Wedding
One of the books I received for holiday good wishes was David Bellos’ “Is That a Fish in Your Ear?“, …
Passage of Tears – a novel from Djibouti
A returning ex-pat, an espionage mission, a mysterious Islamist counter-intelligence figure locked away in Djibouti’s Devil’s Islands, a palimpsest of letters …
In The Garden of Beasts — a Review
All who have read about, and certainly those who experienced, World War II and Germany’s becoming the vicious murderer of its …
Tomas Transtromer: A Poet Cheered by Small Things
I know you know that Tomas Transtromer, Sweden’t great poet, was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. But, my …