Mary Cappello
“I am writing from a place of the synchronous and the overlapping, from the lost-to-time and the prescient.”
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Migratory Birds by Mariana Oliver, translated from the Spanish by Julia Sanches, is a 2022 finalist for the PEN America Translation Prize.
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Kristen Gehrman
“In Dutch, leuk is a simple, everyday word that could be translated a variety of ways depending on the tone and context.”
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Transit Staff
What are we reading? Some holiday reading recommendations from Transit staff.
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David Hayden
“I sit on a rotten bench by the river Wensum in Norwich, at the edge of early old age.”
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Chris Clarke
“Girod’s long sentence takes on the form of the desert itself, rising and falling, shifting with breath and wind, ever-changing but never changing.”
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Noémi Lefebvre
“But what to do when you’re hopeless at everything? Oh I’d so like to step out of myself, to stop plugging away in myself the way sheep, dogs, crows, carp and all the other animals do in their own ways; to be you or at least someone else.”
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Alice Whitmore
“When I wrote to Dimópulos to ask her what on earth was going in these passages, she very kindly, very patiently, explained the Quiniela code to me. And yet, understanding was only half the battle—I now had to find a way to translate these passages into English.”
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Mariana Dimópulos
“Now the familiar river coast in Buenos Aires, with its failed infinitude, the leaning trees, the murky waters, belong to the past. You have moved out, but the equation still needs to be satisfied.”
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Julia Sanches
“In English, the whooping crane does not trumpet, just as, in other languages, roosters do not all cock-a-doodle-doo.”
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Carol Bensimon
“I take a stroll down to Big River Estuary and sit to watch the cold-water swimmers. They are all women. I know this because they meet here every day, put up their grey hair, fit it into red swim caps, and jump in the water as if nothing that cold is going on.”
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Lisa Dillman
“There are words misheard, misspelled, and misunderstood. All things typographical reinforce this thematically, but at the sentence level, so does word choice.”
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Mariana Oliver
“I learned to enjoy the changing color of the landscape and the musical velocity. Maybe the horizon is the point where imagination and desire begin.”
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