Referenced in The Atlantic

[firecat]

TIL one of my posts was referenced in The Atlantic way back in 2017.

Jennifer Adams posted about Wisława Szymborska‘s poem “Pod jednq gwiazdkq” (“Under One Small Star”) and mentions several different translations of it. Then she comments “If you’re really invested, someone even compiled a table of four translations side by side” and links to a post I made in 2012.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2017/04/favorite-poems-under-one-small-star/622507/

https://firecat.dreamwidth.org/791082.html

I wonder how many of my allotted fifteen minutes of fame that counts for.

Comments

[snippy]

That's cool!

[icarus]

That's very cool. I say one minute per translation.

[sabotabby]

Awesome!

[ellenmillion]

WOW! What a cool thing to find.

[hitchhiker]

nice!

[selki]

I love seeing different translations of poems! Congratulations on The Atlantic reference.
Here's another: https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/01/der-werwolf/ (several translations of a German poem).
*Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead* involves Polish people working on translating William Blake into Polish, among many other things going on in the plot (kind of a murder mystery).

[firecat]

I love that poem! Thank you!

And since we’re on German poetry, another one I’ve collected translations of is Rilke’s “Der Schwann”:
https://firecat.dreamwidth.org/796433.html

[selki]

I'm glad you liked it!

I have a book of Rilke's poetry. Each poem is in German on the left side and English on the right (only one English translation, though).

[firecat]

I think I might have that book somewhere...