Oct 16, 2021
Online
Poetry’s Geographies: Conflict, Context, and Connection in USA and UK Translations, Part 1
Poetry’s Geographies: Conflict, Context, and Connection in USA and UK Translations, Part 1
How can poetry translation on either side of the Atlantic redraw maps to create new connections, particularly in the light of recent tendencies towards isolationism? How can it produce change by rewriting lines of conflict and colonization, navigating neighboring contexts, or exploring implications that are shared between cultures?
As examples, Katherine Hedeen and Zoë Skoulding will offer texts as editors of a forthcoming transatlantic anthology of translation, including work by Don Mee Choi, Forrest Gander, Sasha Dugdale, and Meena Kandasamy, as well as Ghazal Mosadeq, whose translation of poetry from Iran broaches a politics in which both the USA and UK are implicated. Participants will be invited to respond to these texts and to suggest others for further discussion. Format: Texts will be shared in advance. The first session will feature brief presentations to stimulate discussion of selected works. Participants will then be invited to share their own examples relevant to the conversation, including translations in progress.
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Organizers
Katherine M. Hedeen’s latest translations include prepoems in postspanish and other poems by Jorgenrique Adoum (Action Books) and from a red barn by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez (co•im•press). She is a Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College, a Managing Editor of Action Books, and the Poetry in Translation Editor at the Kenyon Review. More info: www. katherinemhedeen.com. Zoë Skoulding is a poet, critic, and translator. She is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University. Her current research project is “Poetry in Transatlantic Translation: Circulation and Practice Across Languages.” Further information can be found at www.zoeskoulding.co.uk. Ghazal Mosadeq is a poet and translator in London. She is the founder of Pamenar Press, an independent experimental press interested in translational and multilingual experiments.
Participants
Lucas Klein is a father, writer, translator, and Associate Professor of Chinese at ASU. He is executive editor of the Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature (Oxford), author of The Organization of Distance (Brill), co-editor of Chinese Poetry and Translation (Amsterdam), and translator of Xi Chuan (New Directions), Mang Ke (Zephyr), Li Shangyin (NYRB), and Duo Duo (Yale).