Book Description City Lights Books, United States, 2001. Paperback. Condition: New. Language: Spanish. Brand new Book. The magic of Andalusia is crystallized in Federico Garcia Lorca s first major work, Poem of the Deep Song, written in 1921 when the poet was twenty-three years old, and published a decade later. In this group of poems, based on saetas, soleares, and siguiriyas, Lorca captures the passionate flamenco cosmos of Andalusia s Gypsies, those mysterious wandering folk who gave deep song its definitive form. Cante jondo, deep song, comes from a musical tradition that developed among peoples who fled into the mountains in the 15th century to escape the Spanish Inquisition. With roots in Arabic instruments, Sephardic ritual, Byzantine liturgy, native folk songs, and, above all, the rhythms of Gypsy life, deep song is characterized by intense and profound emotion. Fearing that the priceless heritage of deep song might vanish from Spain, Lorca, along with Manuel de Falla and o
Shanahan: ‘A Hard-Headed Refusal To Give In’
While translator and co-guest editor Scott Shanahan at
Words Without Borders‘ magazine this month works well in his introductory essay to stress that Galician is neither a dialect nor a transcription of Spanish or Portuguese, the Galician region in northwestern Spain is known this year for its decree that the coronavirus COVID-19 vaccine is compulsory for all 2.7 million inhabitants.
Fines for non-compliance are reported to range from €1,000 to €60,000 (US$1,193 to $71,589), The Local reported late last month, and Spain on Sunday (March 14) marked the first anniversary of its original state of emergency declared for the pandemic’s assault.
Translating Dagestan in Alisa Ganieva’s “Munkar and Nakir”
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Sabrina Jaszi s translation of Alisa Ganieva s Munkar and Nakir appears in the February 2021 issue of Words Without Borders
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Preparing to translate “Munkar and Nakir,” I reread the stories of Flannery O’Connor, whose darkly comic and grotesque portrayals of the American South are described as “Southern Gothic.” First published in the regional journal
Dagestan, Alisa Ganieva’s “Munkar and Nakir” could be said to represent another incarnation of the genre writing of the Russian South. And like the qualifier “American,” “Russian” is a complex category, which receives thorough treatment in the current issue of
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February 18, 2021 (New York, NY) The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce the
2021 Poems in Translation Contest produced by Words Without Borders the digital magazine for international literature and a content partner of the Academy to spotlight groundbreaking work by poets and translators around the world. The four winning translated poems will be co-published in Poem-a-Day, the popular daily poetry series produced by the Academy of American Poets, and in Words Without Borders throughout September, which is National Translation Month.
The contest is open to submissions of contemporary international poetry translated from other languages into English. The winning poems will be selected by award-winning poet