A Treacherous Art

These pieces are selected from a steady series of essays and reviews I found myself publishing in the late aughts of the still early century. It was a period in which I was translating poetry, not so much as a specific translation "project," but as an extension of writing poetry. And as an interactive means of reading poetry.

My impetus for writing prose on translated poetry was explorative, not didactic. During that period, I eventually published three translation collections from three ve...