A Journal of Translation
Issue 18 Winter 2021’s collection of publications.
Artist’s Note: I was inspired to create this painting by spring nature in my village. I painted apple trees through which sunlight shines, when the sun goes up, at the beginning of the warm season, burgeoning young leaves on the …
****** Translator’s Note: The series was made as a visual translation between the front and the back of found correspondence. On a tour through Italy in 1958, Grandparents (Papy & Mamy) sent postcards to their grandchildren …
Original by Dan Pagis Translated, from the Hebrew, by Shoshana Olidort Father, do you remember how I discovered the letters? No? Many years after I’d immigrated to Israel, one evening, perhaps in ’63 or ’64, I came for a visit …
Original by Marina Tsvetaeva Translated, from the Russian, by Aster Fialla & Lev Nikulin How could you live with someone new? Easily, huh? One row and – gone! Like a shore that shrinks from view How quick the memory sailed …
Original by Paula Cucurella Translated, from the Spanish, by Alaric López Among my symptoms: the congenital need to be misunderstood worsens the tendency to lose the thread. But between you and me, América, we’ve come to master the art of …
Originals & Translations by Alyn Mare & Macs Chávez dando la patita / arivaca, 2020 curve paw in trust shaking yes i hold my own hand, will u hold mine too we hold it together against crushing tedium, hugging …
Original by Rosabetty Muñoz Translated, from the Spanish, by Gavia Boyden It’s about plotting the map, but it overflows. Loved ones are left out. The plain, in its entirety, is stingy; the mountain range a blurred grey line. This …