Open Windows Podcast

Jonas Zdanys Open Windows: Poems and Translations


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Today’s program is about translating poetry. That is, rendering poems from one language into another language. I talk about how we create a new poem in that process, a new work of art that provides us with a new experience in the new language.  I begin today’s program by talking about how I made my first translation when I was in college and I talk about that process line by line. I end the program with readings of my translations of poems by the wonderful Lithuanian poet Marcelijus Martinaitis.
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