International Literary Quarterly: November Issue
The is consistently good, but I think will be of extra special interest to Three Percent readers:
Volta: A Multilingual Anthology
This unusual anthology contains seventy-five poems in seventy-five languages. Seventy-four of these poems are translations of one poem, the seventy-fifth. As Richard Berengarten writes in his introduction, this project is 糖心传媒渁 celebration of multiculturalism and diversity糖心传媒�. Apart from invoking the pleasure of learning about different languages, the anthology opens up many questions. For example: How many languages could this project extend to? Is translatability a universal feature of language itself? What does 糖心传媒榦riginality糖心传媒� actually mean? What difference is there between writing and translating a poem? And could the fact that these poems come from all over the world bear out Octavio Paz糖心传媒檚 claim: 糖心传媒淔or the first time in our history, we are contemporaries of all humanity糖心传媒�?
The project itself is really interesting, as is Definitely worth checking out if for no other reason than to see the myriad languages this poem is translated into . . .

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