Untranslatable

by Julia Klatt Singer

Untranslatable is a book-length collection of poems that all start from an untranslatable word—a word found in other languages that we do not have in English. The poems written from the words capture how this word is or can be lived, defined from a natural and imaginative world perspective. “Lovers of language take delight in those wonderful words which refuse to succumb to literal translation. Untranslatable captures the imaginative essence of these words and our underlying sense that, after all, nothing slips our understanding.” –Marcia Peck, writer and cellist in the Minnesota Orchestra

96 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2015

About the author

Julia Klatt Singer is the poet in residence at Grace Neighborhood Nursery School, and works as a visiting writer to the school through COMPAS. She is co-author of Twelve Branches: Stories from St. Paul, Coffee House Press, 2003 and author of a chapbook, In the Dreamed of Places, Naissance Press, 2011. and a book of poetry, A Tangled Path to Heaven, North Star Press, 2013. Her work can be found in Poetry East, The St. Paul Almanac, the Beat on KAXE, and Open to Interpretation. She has co-written six songs with composer Tim Takach. When not writing, she can be found walking the dog.