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The Poem Behind the Poem: Translating Asian Poetry

By Frank Stewart (Editor)
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By Frank Stewart (Editor)
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"The translator must keep faith with the deeper need that poetry fulfills in our lives, [to] discover not what the poem says but what it does."—Tony Barnstone, in his essay "Poem Behind the Poem"

The translation of Asian poetry into Western languages has been one of the most important literary events over the past one hundred years. Readers have fallen in love with Asian poetry and writers have been greatly influenced by it.

What neither reader nor writer ever witness is the intense engagemen...

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ReferenceLiteratureGeneral ReferenceLiterary CriticismPoetry - Literary CriticismTranslating & InterpretingGeneral & Miscellaneous Poetry - Literary Criticism