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The World Over: Translators Speak on New Poetry in Translation
EP 22.
In EP 22, H.L. Hix interviews 13 literary translators to explore the role of translation in expanding our collective sense of possibility and experiences.
Excerpt:
Demopoesis is the charge incumbent upon a collective. It parallels the charge incumbent upon an individual that ‘you must revise your life.’ The capacity to fulfill such a charge depends upon the expansion and ennoblement of a sense of possibility. Pascale Casanova claims, in The World Republic of Letters, that in its ‘true nature’ translation is not ‘a mere exchange of one language for another,’ but is instead ‘a form of literary recognition.’ Her claim hints at why translation offers a very prototype of demopoesis. We (the ‘we’ of any collective) will not be able to expand and ennoble our sense of possibility without recognition, a recognition that consists in acknowledging some range of alternatives, learning who we might be by regarding our own experience in light of the experiences of others. Literary translation is not the only practice that advances such regard, but no practice advances it more.
—from H.L. Hix's introduction
In EP 22, H.L. Hix interviews 13 literary translators to explore the role of translation in expanding our collective sense of possibility and experiences.
Excerpt:
Demopoesis is the charge incumbent upon a collective. It parallels the charge incumbent upon an individual that ‘you must revise your life.’ The capacity to fulfill such a charge depends upon the expansion and ennoblement of a sense of possibility. Pascale Casanova claims, in The World Republic of Letters, that in its ‘true nature’ translation is not ‘a mere exchange of one language for another,’ but is instead ‘a form of literary recognition.’ Her claim hints at why translation offers a very prototype of demopoesis. We (the ‘we’ of any collective) will not be able to expand and ennoble our sense of possibility without recognition, a recognition that consists in acknowledging some range of alternatives, learning who we might be by regarding our own experience in light of the experiences of others. Literary translation is not the only practice that advances such regard, but no practice advances it more.
—from H.L. Hix's introduction
68 pages, ebook
First published April 14, 2015
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About the author
H.L. Hix
55 books19 followersH. L. Hix has published an anthology, Wild and Whirling Words: A Poetic Conversation (2004), and eight books of poetry and literary criticism with Etruscan, including Shadows of Houses (2005), Chromatic (2006), God Bless: A Political/Poetic Discourse (2007), Legible Heavens (2008), Incident Light (2009), First Fire, Then Birds (2010), As Easy As Lying: Essays on Poetry (2002), and Lines of Inquiry (2011). He has two more books forthcoming from Etruscan, As Much As, If Not More Than (2013) and I’m Here to Learn to Dream in Your Language (2014).
In addition to having been a finalist for the National Book Award for Chromatic, his awards include the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Peregrine Smith Award, and fellowships from the NEA, the Kansas Arts Commission, and the Missouri Arts Council. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, taught at Kansas City Art Institute, and was an administrator at The Cleveland Institute of Art, before accepting his current position as professor in the Creative Writing MFA at the University of Wyoming. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin and at Shanghai University.
In addition to having been a finalist for the National Book Award for Chromatic, his awards include the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Peregrine Smith Award, and fellowships from the NEA, the Kansas Arts Commission, and the Missouri Arts Council. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, taught at Kansas City Art Institute, and was an administrator at The Cleveland Institute of Art, before accepting his current position as professor in the Creative Writing MFA at the University of Wyoming. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin and at Shanghai University.
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