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Comment on Accessible Poetry by Kate Williams

Kate Williams — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:55:13 +0000

Hi Erica, just seen your comment on my comment, from ages ago (31.5.11)! Just in case you ever wanted to check out that page – my website is poemsforfun.wordpress.com, and all its pages SHOULD work, including Adult-ish. Thanks for your interest anyway! Kate

Comment on Reading the World Podcast 10: Edith Grossman by msummers57

msummers57 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:49:25 +0000

What is the non-Heaney Beowulf mentioned in the discussion?

Comment on The ignored island(s) by Aurora

Aurora — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:56:55 +0000

Hola Erica! Sólo un breve mensaje para darte las gracias por la buenísima traducción que hiciste de mi poema “Nido de pájaros”, para Words Without Borders!

Un abrazo grande, y espero conocerte personalmente alguna vez,

Aurora

Comment on The Eternonaut by Franny

Franny — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:26:36 +0000

It’s amazing that you’re translating this! I’m sitting in a library with a stack of Oesterheld books in front of me and wishing his stuff was more widely available. I hope you are able to publish it when it is done!

Comment on Actually, There are Two “Erica Mena”s by E Mena

E Mena — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:20:43 +0000

Wow, that’s really strange! At least my alter-ego and I are in different fields…

Comment on Actually, There are Two “Erica Mena”s by Mani Rao

Mani Rao — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:21:57 +0000

Funny ..

Did you know, there’s another translator called Mani Rao? I found out when someone put together a bio para of me, and included works done by the other Mani Rao, who Google reveals is a “translator of Gujarati Songs, blessings of Ahura Mazda” …

Comment on Don Quixote Makes Me Feel Guilty by Actually, There are Two “Erica Mena”s « Alluringly Short

Actually, There are Two “Erica Mena”s « Alluringly Short — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:14:45 +0000

[...] alter-ego. You see, by day, I’m a grad student, working hard to build a career in academics, teaching, writing, reading, translating, publishing. Oh, really, just buried in poetry in several languages, [...]

Comment on Don Quixote Makes Me Feel Guilty by E Mena

E Mena — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:05:00 +0000

Great to know – I’ll check it out! Thanks!

Comment on Don Quixote Makes Me Feel Guilty by Rise

Rise — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:42:43 +0000

I read the translation by John Rutherford early this year. It’s far from academic and the jokes are quite funny. I explicitly bought it because Margaret Jull Costa endorsed it over Grossman’s version.

Comment on The ignored island(s) by Dave Steward

Dave Steward — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:32:17 +0000

I made the comment about translating him into Spanish as evidence of how solitary Walcott is. His stance of relentless self-regard being dead opposite of that of patriot activists like José Martí and Julia de Burgos. For me Walcott is only words on the page, now José Martí is someone I would relish to have known. It’s hopeful that any Caribbean writer gets read at all in the self-absorbed realm of “American writing.” But maybe, as Julia de Burgos’s short life illustrates, we’re headed for symbiosis, Puerto Rico in New York, Cuba in South Florida.