Able Muse - translation https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/57/57? en Daniel Bourne https://www.ablemuse.com/v30/bio/daniel-bourne? <p>Daniel Bourne&rsquo;s books include <em>The Household Gods</em>, <em>Where No One Spoke the Language</em>, and the forthcoming <em>Talking Back to the Exterminator</em>, from Regal House Publishing. His poems and translations have appeared in <em>Ploughshares, APR, Field, Boulevard, Guernica, Salmagundi, Yale Review, Pleiades, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Plume, Colorado Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Quarterly West</em>, and elsewhere.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v30/bio/daniel-bourne?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v30/bio/daniel-bourne?#comments Bios author bio daniel bourne dobór naturalny facebook futuristic like mars poem poems poetry poetry translation polish satire tadeusz dziewanowski translation v30 Wed, 07 Dec 2022 09:02:25 +0000 Alex Pepple 2086 at https://www.ablemuse.com Natural Selection https://www.ablemuse.com/v30/poetry-translation/tadeusz-dziewanowski/natural-selection? <p>After the elimination of all worthless specimens<br /> There arose at last a species able to feed on empty packages<br /> Of potato chips, that gladly watched ads about hemorrhoid creams<br /> And transmissions of the latest riots on Mars.<br /> This species loved to take walks with its neighbor on a leash<br /> And learned to reproduce by liking on Facebook.<br /> It fell in love with both gorgeous pixels and the morning smog.<br /> Luckily, God never got involved.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v30/poetry-translation/tadeusz-dziewanowski/natural-selection?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v30/poetry-translation/tadeusz-dziewanowski/natural-selection?#comments Poetry Translation author bio daniel bourne dobór naturalny facebook futuristic like mars poem poems poetry poetry translation polish satire tadeusz dziewanowski translation v30 Wed, 07 Dec 2022 08:35:28 +0000 Alex Pepple 2085 at https://www.ablemuse.com Tadeusz Dziewanowski https://www.ablemuse.com/v30/bio/tadeusz-dziewanowski? <p>Born in Gdańsk in 1953, Tadeusz Dziewanowski was involved in Polish street theater as both a writer and performer during the 1970s, and was a cofounder of the Gdańsk-area creative group, Tawerna Psychonaut&oacute;w (The Tavern of the Psychonauts), in the 1980s. More recently, he has been a poet and translator from English. His first book of poetry, <em>Siedemnaście tysięcy małpich ogon&oacute;w</em> (<em>Seventeen Thousand Monkey Tales</em>), appeared in 2009, and his poetry, reviews, and translations from English appear regularly in the Polish literary journal <em>Topos</em>.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v30/bio/tadeusz-dziewanowski?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v30/bio/tadeusz-dziewanowski?#comments Bios author bio daniel bourne dobór naturalny facebook futuristic like mars poem poems poetry poetry translation polish satire tadeusz dziewanowski translation v30 Wed, 07 Dec 2022 08:18:41 +0000 Alex Pepple 2084 at https://www.ablemuse.com From Rerum vulgarium fragmenta https://www.ablemuse.com/v29/poetry-translation/francesco-petrarca--petrarch/from-rerum-vulgarium-fragmenta? <p><strong>April 27: <em>Job, Virgil, Stallings, Queneau</em></strong></p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v29/poetry-translation/francesco-petrarca--petrarch/from-rerum-vulgarium-fragmenta?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v29/poetry-translation/francesco-petrarca--petrarch/from-rerum-vulgarium-fragmenta?#comments Poetry Translation april 29 author bio francesco petrarca italian job lee harlin bahan petrarch poem poems poetry poetry translation queneau rerum vulgarium fragmenta stallings translation v29 virgil Thu, 10 Feb 2022 07:12:39 +0000 Alex Pepple 2007 at https://www.ablemuse.com Lee Harlin Bahan https://www.ablemuse.com/v29/bio/lee-harlin-bahan? <p>Lee Harlin Bahan is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, <em>Migration Solo</em> (Writers&rsquo; Center Press of Indianapolis, 1989) and <em>Notes to Sing</em> (Finishing Line Press, 2016), as well as two collections of translations of Petrarch&rsquo;s sonnets, <em>A Year of Mourning</em> (Able Muse Press, 2017), named a special honoree for the 2016 Able Muse Book Award, and <em>To Wrestle with the Angel: Sonnets from Petrarch&rsquo;s &ldquo;Chapbook&rdquo; of 1337</em> (Finishing Line Press, 2018).<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v29/bio/lee-harlin-bahan?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v29/bio/lee-harlin-bahan?#comments Bios april 29 author bio francesco petrarca italian job lee harlin bahan petrarch poem poems poetry poetry translation queneau rerum vulgarium fragmenta stallings translation v29 virgil Tue, 08 Feb 2022 17:45:03 +0000 Alex Pepple 1952 at https://www.ablemuse.com Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) https://www.ablemuse.com/v29/bio/francesco-petrarca--petrarch? <p>Francesco Petrarca (1304&ndash;1374), commonly known as Petrarch in the English-speaking world, is the great Italian master whose work helped to create the Renaissance sonnet craze in England. He was a Franciscan tertiary, a scholar of the Classics, a friend to <em>Decameron</em> author Giovanni Boccaccio, and an immensely popular poet in his day. Despite his religious vows, he had two children out of wedlock, and is best known for sonnets professing intense love for a woman named Laura.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v29/bio/francesco-petrarca--petrarch?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v29/bio/francesco-petrarca--petrarch?#comments Bios april 29 author bio francesco petrarca italian job lee harlin bahan petrarch poem poems poetry poetry translation queneau rerum vulgarium fragmenta stallings translation v29 virgil Tue, 08 Feb 2022 17:36:50 +0000 Alex Pepple 1951 at https://www.ablemuse.com Argos, Odysseus's Dog https://www.ablemuse.com/v27/poetry/a-e-stallings/argos-odysseus-s-dog? <p><style type="text/css"> p.essay-author {font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 2.50em; text-decoration: none; font-variant: normal; text-indent: 0em; text-align: right; color: #000000; margin: 0.17em 0em; } p.essay-author-override {margin: 0.28em 0em; } p.essay-title {font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.33em; text-decoration: none; font-variant: normal; text-indent: 0em; text-align: right; color:<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v27/poetry/a-e-stallings/argos-odysseus-s-dog?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v27/poetry/a-e-stallings/argos-odysseus-s-dog?#comments Poetry a.e. stallings able muse adaptation argos dog greek odysseus odysseus&#039;s dog poem poetry Timothy Murphy translation tribute tribute to tim murphy v27 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:21:37 +0000 Alex Pepple 1806 at https://www.ablemuse.com A.E. Stallings https://www.ablemuse.com/v27/bio/a-e-stallings? <p>A.E. Stallings is an American poet and translator who has lived in Athens (Greece) since 1999. Her most recent collection is <em>Like</em> from Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, and her most recent verse translation is of Hesiod&rsquo;s <em>Works and Days</em> for Penguin Classics. Her translation (illustrated!) of the pseudo-Homeric <em>The Battle between the Frogs and the Mice: A Tiny Homeric Epic</em> has just been published by Paul Dry Books.<br /> &emsp;Of Tim Murphy, Stallings writes:</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v27/bio/a-e-stallings?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v27/bio/a-e-stallings?#comments Bios A. E. Stallings able muse adaptation argos author bio odysseus’s dog poem poetry sonnet Timothy Murphy translation tribute tribute to tim murphy v27 Sat, 14 Mar 2020 14:34:19 +0000 Alex Pepple 1768 at https://www.ablemuse.com New Spring https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/poetry-translation/heinrich-heine/new-spring? <p>Our deep desires awaken<br /> and wither to a crust<br /> and bloom and wither once again&mdash;<br /> so it goes, till we are dust.</p> <p>I know this, and it troubles<br /> my every loving breath,<br /> my heart so bright and clever,<br /> it bleeds me half to death.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Translated from the German of Heinrich Heine<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;by <a style="text-decoration:none" href="/v26/bio/terese-coe">Terese Coe</a></em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/poetry-translation/heinrich-heine/new-spring?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/poetry-translation/heinrich-heine/new-spring?#comments Poetry Translation able muse author german heinrich heine neuer frühling new spring poem poems poetry poetry translation terese coe translation v26 winter 2018 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:51:41 +0000 Alex Pepple 1723 at https://www.ablemuse.com In the Dream https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/poetry-translation/heinrich-heine/in-the-dream? <p>In the dream I saw a little man, peculiar,<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; who walked on stilts and was clearly stepping out<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; in a clean white linen shirt and woolen coat,<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; but on the inside, he was dripping with mire.</p> <p>Inside he was wretched, useless, lazy,<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; but his outer self could have been worthy and strong;<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; he talked about courage and carried on so long<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; I began to see he was obstinate—even crazy.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/poetry-translation/heinrich-heine/in-the-dream?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/poetry-translation/heinrich-heine/in-the-dream?#comments Poetry Translation able muse author german heinrich heine im traum sah ich ein männchen klein und putzig in the dream poem poems poetry poetry translation terese coe translation v26 winter 2018 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:13:07 +0000 Alex Pepple 1722 at https://www.ablemuse.com