Norman Davies, a historian, the author of Europe, said that translation is like a melody of an original played on a different instrument or in a different key. “Bach’s Air on a G string. which was written for a violin,…
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Poetry and Translation: Ryszard Krynicki translated by Ewa Chrusciel
These poems and the essay following will appear in the anthology On the Endless Horizon: A Poet’s Field Guide to Literary Translation, forthcoming from W.W. Norton in 2014.
Poetry: Ewa Chrusciel
Triangular Sketches N 1 I The drawing of foxes, the tentacles of earth. Whisper the cliffs. Pivot verticalities. Lumens. What Light admits. Let there be 4 & 6. Earth is air. News of luminous itineraries slide into shards, debris, annun…