POETIC LICENSE<\/i> – Translations and Versions<\/p>\n
To read a poem in translation\u00a0is to pledge troth to a ghost,\u00a0a wispy, intangible presence residing in another world you can never\u00a0touch without crossing over to it. \u00a0At the same time for a poet, translation comes down to writing one\u00a0<\/i>poem about another<\/i>. We call the absolute right to put what we want into our own poems <\/i>poetic license.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
A Lamb of the Lord Akhmatova’s Same Glass\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Ancient Story <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" POETIC LICENSE – Translations and Versions To read a poem in translation\u00a0is to pledge troth to a ghost,\u00a0a wispy, intangible presence residing in another world you can never\u00a0touch without crossing over to it. \u00a0At the same time for a poet, translation comes down to writing one\u00a0poem about another. We call the absolute right to put … <\/p>\n
<\/a>A Stand of Flowers
<\/a>Afterwards<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a>Cadieux\u2019s Lament
<\/a>Distraught Dream
<\/a>Everything Blooming<\/a>
Goethe’s Two Souls<\/a>
Gramsci’s Ashes<\/a>
Hafez’s Joseph Gone Astray<\/a>
Heine\u2019s Exile
<\/a>Icons
<\/a>In the Eyes of a Dumb Beast
<\/a>Ivan Goll\u2019s Headstone
<\/a>Lozeau\u2019s Azure
<\/a>Maple Leaves
<\/a>Montale\u2019s Lemon Trees
<\/a>Not Nonsense Verse but Verse about Nonsense
<\/a>One Moment
<\/a>Pushkin\u2019s Plea
<\/a>Quasimodo\u2019s Blessed Brume
<\/a>Quasimodo\u2019s Dying Ray of Sun
<\/a>Rain on Pines
<\/a>Reminder to Self
<\/a>Rilke to Tsvetaeva, Jealous over Pasternak
<\/a>Rilke\u2019s Sweet Song<\/a>
Rimbaud’s Au cabaret vert<\/em><\/a>
Rimbaud’s Sonnet du trou du cul<\/em><\/a>
Rimbaud’s Bateau ivre<\/em><\/a>
Rimbaud’s Coeur supplici\u00e9<\/em><\/a>
Sailor, You Will Always Love the Sea
<\/a>Sensei, the Serene
<\/a>Shepherd\u2019s Siesta
<\/a>Sixth Sense
<\/a>Soft Yellow Buttercup Field
<\/a>Sor Juana’s Silly Men<\/a>
Stichless Seam
<\/a>Montale\u2019s\u00a0Lemon Trees
<\/a>The Real Danish Summer
<\/a>The Strangest of All<\/a>
<\/a>Transtr\u00f6mer Beheld
<\/a>Transtr\u00f6mer\u2019s Traces<\/a>
Xu Zhimo’s Adieu to Cambridge<\/a>
Why, Death, Should I Fear You?<\/a>
Yard\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n