Eratosphere Forums - Metrical Poetry, Free Verse, Fiction, Art, Critique, Discussions Able Muse - a review of poetry, prose and art

Forum Left Top

Notices

When the Universe tries to know itself, it sends round a billion and a dozen of life-hungry couriers with just three things to do: to taste, to touch and to experience. Sensorizm and ever-lasting thirst for everything new and unknown are two perfect guides in this short trip, the purpose of which is to enjoy life in its very bloom.
Unread

Some old photos of Anna Akhmatova

Posted 04-29-2010 at 05:56 AM by Helen Agaf (Stars never fall, they travel)
Updated 04-29-2010 at 11:32 AM by Helen Agaf (The pics couldn't be seen)
http://ib1.keep4u.ru/b/2010/04/29/37...779d7156be.jpg

http://ib1.keep4u.ru/b/2010/04/29/8f...5c5d57024a.jpg

http://ib1.keep4u.ru/b/2010/04/29/0b...94fd500c79.jpg

http://ib1.keep4u.ru/b/2010/04/29/0b...94fd500c79.jpg
This one was taken in 1925.

http://ib1.keep4u.ru/b/2010/04/29/cf...58163b5ff1.jpg
In 1920-es.

http://ib1.keep4u.ru/b/2010/04/29/bd...f17af3e237.jpg...
Helen Agaf's Avatar
New Member
Posted in Uncategorized
Views 77784 Comments 0 Helen Agaf is offline
Unread

"To be a boy of yours with fair hair", or Tsvetaeva as St. John in "The Disciple"

Posted 04-27-2010 at 06:08 AM by Helen Agaf (Stars never fall, they travel)
Today I’d like to share a translation of Tsvetaeva’s #1 of “The Disciple” cycle. This is a passionate and energetic lyric poem with quite interesting similes. Right from the start Marina describes her fervent wish to be as close to her spiritual leader as young St. John, Christ’s favorite disciple, was to Jesus. However, at the end of a poem a heretic motive appears with a bonfire prepared for her master.

There are also two other interesting things about the verse. Thus, some lines...
Helen Agaf's Avatar
New Member
Posted in Uncategorized
Views 35579 Comments 0 Helen Agaf is offline
Unread

Observation: a very good poet can be a very poor reciter of his own poetry...

Posted 04-26-2010 at 08:38 AM by Helen Agaf (Stars never fall, they travel)
Prince Sergey Volkonski about his home and well-known poets of his youth:

"Very often poets came to our place to recite their poetry. Alexey K. Tolstoy recited his best verses, as well as Yakov P. Polonski* – both were worst possible reciters. Apollon N. Maykov recited his “Three deaths”, “The two worlds” and many other poems. He was a quite brilliant reciter, with clear logical and strikingly artistic declamation."

*Yakov P. Polonski - Russian poet and prosaist....
Helen Agaf's Avatar
New Member
Posted in Uncategorized
Views 38607 Comments 0 Helen Agaf is offline
Unread

Natalia L. Trauberg: "Translation helps to get rid of egomania..."

Posted 04-19-2010 at 11:05 AM by Helen Agaf (Stars never fall, they travel)
Natalia L. Trauberg, translator of prose and poetry (English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese - Russian).

"A translator devotes his energies to an author, as if dissolving completely in a book. Figuratively speaking, if a translator doesn't kill himself in himself, just as an icon painter kills the artist in himself, he wouldn't be able to work. Few manage doing this; when I translate something, I do more writing than translating. There are several kinds of translators....
Helen Agaf's Avatar
New Member
Posted in Uncategorized
Views 34923 Comments 0 Helen Agaf is offline
Unread

Natalia S. Mavlevich: “It seems to me that translation is an image thinking process."

Posted 04-16-2010 at 08:13 AM by Helen Agaf (Stars never fall, they travel)
Natalia S. Mavlevich, translator of prose and poetry (French – Russian).

“It seems to me that translation is an image thinking process. Once Averintsev* (Sergey S. Averintsev, famous Russian philologist) noticed: our profession is based on a similar triangles principle, i.e. we must provide the adequacy of associations. The most important thing in translation - its very core - is a degree of freedom and accuracy.
<…>
Present-day translators live in a world without...
Helen Agaf's Avatar
New Member
Posted in Uncategorized
Views 36846 Comments 0 Helen Agaf is offline


Forum Right Top
Forum Left Bottom Forum Right Bottom
 
Right Left
Member Login
Forgot password?
Forum LeftForum Right


Forum Statistics:
Forum Members: 8,457
Total Threads: 22,294
Total Posts: 275,510
There are 888 users
currently browsing forums.
Forum LeftForum Right


Forum Sponsor:
Donate & Support Able Muse / Eratosphere
Forum LeftForum Right
Right Right
Right Bottom Left Right Bottom Right

Hosted by ApplauZ Online