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mad meth math: paul celan’s “bei wein und verlorenheit”

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

“paul celan & the seune” ZJC (2008)
I understand that the Jewish-German poet Paul Celan is, at times, obscure. I won’t pretend I have the skills it takes to translate him; partly because of his goal of dismantling the “Master’s Language” of Nazi Germany, that is, by stripping the language of Hitler and Heidegger and […]

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Translations — an Introduction

Monday, September 19th, 2005

One of the aims for this website is to generate a new home for translations. The whole concept of the power of good translations was brought home to me during one of the conversations held at the 2004 Dodge Poetry Festival at the Duke Farms. I attended “The Mysterious Life Within Translation” […]

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