Looking Eastward

by Weissbort, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780953382491
• ISBN10: 0953382494
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Weissbort's intention was to end his tenure with the series Modern Poetry in Translation with an issue devoted, in part, to Eastern Europe, as the first book in the MPT series (1965) was largely devoted to this region or, more precisely, to the first post-War generation of poets, such as Zbigniew Herbert, Miroslav Holub, and Vasko Popa. In this most recent volume of MPT, Weissbort explores the changed landscape of the past thirty years, including interviews with writers of succeeding generations and a few survivors from the Herbert generation. Other features of Looking Eastward include a broad selection of MPT cofounder Ted Hughes' unpublished translations from various languages and time periods, and a selection of work from student translators.

Table of Contents

To the Reader	5	(4)
Daniel Weissbort
Ted Hughes: Unpublished Translations	9	(22)
A Tribute, compiled by Daniel Weissbort
East Europe and Russia
Vladimir Gandelsman	31	(4)
tr. Nika Skandiaka and Yana Djin
Ivan Krylov	35	(7)
tr. Gordon Pirie
Demyan Kudryavtsev	42	(3)
tr. Daniel Weissbort
Pushkin	45	(14)
tr. Robert Chandler
Boris Slutsky	59	(2)
tr. Gerald Smith
Marina Tsvetaeva	61	(21)
tr. Angela Livingstone
Aleksandr Vvedensky	82	(16)
tr. E Ostashevsky
Ludvik Kundera	98	(3)
tr. Ian Hilton
Ewa Lipska	101	(3)
tr. Ryzsard Reisner
Halina Poswiatowska	104	(2)
tr. Sarah Luczaj
Tadeusz Rózewicz	106	(9)
tr. Adam Czerniawski
Jan Twardowski	115	(2)
tr. Ryzsard Reisner
Orsolya Karafiath	117	(3)
tr. David A Hill with Ildikó Juhász
Sandor Marai	120	(2)
tr. Martin Bennett
Miklós Radnóti	122	(2)
tr. Stephen Capus
Sandor Rákos	124	(3)
tr. David Hill
Istvan Szarka	127	(2)
tr. David A Hill with Ildiko Juhász
Ottó Tolnai	129	(2)
tr. David Hill
Tin Ujevic	131	(1)
tr. Richard Burns with Daša Maric
Marko Vešovic	132	(3)
tr. Chris Agee
Other European
Adolf Endler	135	(2)
tr. Stefan Tobler
Antonio Machado	137	(1)
tr. David Curzon
Liam O'Muirthile	138	(2)
tr. Greg Delanty
Salvatore Quasimodo	140	(2)
tr. Patrick Milan
Angel Rupérez	142	(6)
tr. Joan Lindgren
Rafik Schami	148	(1)
tr. Stefan Tobler
George Seferis	149	(5)
tr. Roderick Beaton
Volker Sielaff	154	(2)
tr. Stefan Tobler
Lennart Sjögren	156	(4)
tr. Robin Fulton
Esaias Tegnér and Charles XII	160	(7)
tr. CH Wallace
Latin-American
Alberto Blanco	167	(4)
tr. Joan Lindgren
Juan Gelman	171	(5)
tr. Joan Lindgren
Lya Luft	176	(3)
tr. Arthur M Lipman
Subcontinent
Sitesh Aloke	179	(1)
tr. Debjani Chatterjee
Saleha Chowdhury	180	(4)
tr. Debjani Chatterjee
Mangalesh Dabral	184	(7)
tr. Robert A Hueckstedt
Debarati Mitra	191	(3)
tr. Debjani Chatterjee and Ashoke Sen
Kabir	194	(6)
tr. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Sanskrit, Pali and Hindi poems	200	(4)
tr. R Parthasarathy
Rabindranath Thakur	204	(5)
tr. Prasenjit Gupta
Rabindranath Tagore	209	(11)
tr. Carolyn B Brown
Love Poems of Tukaram	220	(3)
tr. Dilip Chitre
Translation: Problems of a Paralysed Republic	223	(6)
by Dilip Chitre
China
Wen Yiduo	229	(2)
tr. Robert Dorsett
He Zhizhang	231	(1)
tr. Ouyang Yu
Some Recent Chinese poems (Wang Jiaxin, Song Xiaoxian, Fei Ya, Song Yaozhen, Luruo Diji)	232	(5)
tr. by Ouyang Yu
Plus
Ahatna Athabaskan Poems	237	(4)
tr. John E Smelcer
Ahmad Shamlu	241	(3)
tr. Gholam Reza Sami Gorgan Roodi
Featured Translators
Michael Bullock	244	(4)
James Kirkup	248	(6)
Michael Hamburger	254	(4)
National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth - Translation Day	258	(10)
Introduced by David Hart and Daniel Weissbort
Reviews
Original Translations, on Arthur Jacobs	268	(3)
Daniel Weissbort
Some Books Received - With Comments	271	(11)
Daniel Weissbort
Adam Czerniawski's Selected Poems	282
Stephen Watts