Posts Tagged ‘translation’
Hardly Strictly + Litquake
If you’re ready to trail back to the neighborhood Sunday afternoon, Oct. 6th, by 4:30 or so — after three or four days of Golden Gate Park crowds for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass — we’ll extend the spirit of the affair here at Bird & Beckett. And a week later, Litquake begins — and will include two…
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Sunday, March 10th, at 2 pm:
Retrofitting Babel – An Informal Talk about Translation and Translators
Carlos Suarez addresses a few salient issues of translation: How to make a mess and influence literary history without getting caught. The at times amusing troubles poetry translators get into, and how they survive them. The uses of mirrors and echoes to fake a translation, and other tricks of the trade. The dictionary as cemetery…
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Thursday, January 31st:
Poets Richard Silberg
& Willis Barnstone
Thursday, Jan. 31st at 7 pm: Two distinguished poets, reading their original poems and translations. Richard Silberg reads from his new collection of poems, The Horses: New and Selected Poems, published in September of last year by Red Hen Press. Silberg is an important member of the contemporary Bay Area poetry community — as a…
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