Translations

Rilke’s “Herbsttag” (1902) in manuscript, print, and in translation (see The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots, 2019)

 

Announcement of 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature in Translation Fellowships here. The grant helped fund retranslation from the French of the 512-line poem “The Young Fate [La Jeune Parque]” by French poet Paul Valéry.

For a generous excerpt (200 lines), along with the accompanying essay (from The Hopkins Review 10.2), click here.

A shorter overview and selection (both translation and the original French) appears at the N.E.A.’s “Meet the Translation Fellows” page.

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A Happy Death (translation of Baudelaire’s “Le Mort joyeux”), awarded the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, Evansville Review

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Advice from a Friend (a variation on Valéry’s “Conseil d’ami”), Birmingham Poetry Review

Athena and the Owl (Apollinaire), The Last Count of Brederode (Rilke), The Cabinet (Rimbaud), Strange Sea (Valéry), Wolf (Rimbaud), String Poet

An Angel’s Fury (a variation on Baudelaire’s “Le Rebelle”), Antiphon

The Dispossessed (Baudelaire), Don Juan in Hell (Baudelaire), Winter Bell (Baudelaire), Able Muse

Before Daybreak (a variation on Trakl’s “Das Grauen”), Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Venetian Courtesan (Rilke), Ghost Armada (Rilke), Nearing the Buddha (Rilke), Servant to an Impulse (Rimbaud), Lost Prayer in Time of War (Rimbaud), Rotary Dial

Bronze Tableau (Valéry), A Giant of Ages Past (Baudelaire), Lavender Review

The White Cats (Valéry), Pomegranates (Valéry), The Traveling Circus (Apollinaire), The Fortune Teller (Apollinaire), Black Cat (Rilke), Unsplendid

Who We Are (a variation on Trakl’s “Menschheit”), Angle