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32b. Bonus: David Hadbawnik on the Aeneid.


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Besides that Diores starts whining since

   he’d fall off the podium altogether
   if Salius were awarded first
      “RELAX”

says Aeneas, “I’m not taking nothing

   from nobody
      but I can sympathize
   with someone who lost out
   through no fault of his own”

For this bonus episode, we are joined by David

Hadbawnik, a poet, translator, and
medieval scholar, whose exciting translation of Aeneid Books
I–VI
was published by Shearsman Books in 2015. In 2012, he edited Thomas Meyer’s
Beowulf (Punctum
Books), and in 2011 he co-edited selections from Jack Spicer’s
Beowulf
for CUNY’s Lost and Found Document Series. He has published academic essays on
poetic diction in English poetry from the medieval through early modern
period. His latest book, Holy Sonnets to Orpheus and Other
Poems, was published by Delete Press in 2018.

We ask David about the particular challenges of translating the Aeneid, his

approach to the translation, and what he finds compelling (and frustrating)
about the second half of the poem as he completes his translation.

Show Notes.

David’s translation of Aeneid Books

I–VI.

A sample from Book

IX.

An interview with David on his translation of the

Aeneid.

Sandow Birk: Inferno,

Purgatorio, Paradiso.

Sandow Birk: American Qur’an.

Thomas Meyer: Beowulf.

Christopher Logue: War Music.

Kevin Varrone: Box

Score.

Since we recorded this conversation, the first episode of David’s new poetry

podcast, Primitive
Information, is out, with an interview with José Felipe
Alvergue. Check it out!

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