Ñandúes
| 6 April 2012 | The Translation Chronicles |
I’ve been working on my translation project tonight, ushering into English a short story written in 1902 that essentially conforms to the Anglo-American genre of “Nature Writing”. It is truly lovely work — the author is a relative unknown, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz — that complements quite nicely the more renowned work of writers such as…
Wreck
| 28 March 2012 | Authors of Interest, Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness, Poetry of My Youth |
With Adrienne Rich, I dove into the wreck, at the ripe age of sixteen, I dove with her into the depths of poetry, she guided me (as did my 11th grade English AP English teacher) through the spaces that poetry can create, the architecture of words and images, in a poem so tight that, like…
Dictionaries
| 20 March 2012 | Language, The Translation Chronicles |
The Translation Chronicles continue: Remember dictionaries? The kind with the pages, and the little tabs AB, CD, etc? The kind that you now use as a doorstop, or to prop up your laptop when you’re working at the dining room table and don’t want to kill your wrists with early-onset carpal tunnel syndrome? Pure anachronism.…
Unsung
| 19 March 2012 | The Translation Chronicles |
I’m working these days on a major series of translations, and I thought to myself just now, hey! That’s writing! It’s not “creative” writing or “scholarly” writing — it’s BOTH OF THOSE. I think people tend to look on translation as a secondary activity… Actually, I don’t *think* that, I KNOW that for sure. Frequently…
Big Scary Northeast Conference
| 18 March 2012 | Posted by coffee.n.drama under Conferences, Writing and Not-Writing |
I should have liveblogged the ordeal that was my conference paper for Big Scary Northeast Conference, which I (happily) just returned from. Why? Because something is screwy with the way that I write. Or, perhaps more accurately, something has fundamentally *changed* and I cannot figure out precisely what it is. Perhaps I am a little…
Redux
| 14 March 2012 | Posted by coffee.n.drama under Writing and Not-Writing |
This was once a website dedicated to my graduate study and other various and sundry topics. I have since moved onward and upward, but one thing remains constant: I write. And so I’ve overhauled the blog to make it a place for meditations on the writing process, on what I’m reading and how it is…
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