Circumference is a magazine of literature in translation and international culture. Issue 12 includes poems and prose translated from Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Kurdish, Nepali, Polish, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, and Tamil. Also in this issue: wartime corruption, chasing specters, the ocean whipped up by doomsday winds at the end of time.
features
A poem by Ahatanhel Krymsky, translated from the Ukrainian by Alex Averbuch
Five poems from Milo De Angelis' Last Stops of the Night Journey, translated from the Italian by Susan Stewart and Patrizio Ceccagnoli
archives
Two poems by Amrita Pritam, translated from the Punjabi by Rituparna Sengupta
Two poems from Modern Woman by Edith Södergran, translated from the Swedish by CD Eskilson
A poem by Eka Kevanishvili, translated from the Georgian by Dalila Gogia
Three poems by Vassilis Kimoulis, translated from the Greek by Peter Constantine
A poem by Igor Bakhterev, translated from the Russian by Jonah Howell and Sofija Popovska
Alexey Mozyaev talks to poet Dinara Rasuleva about Lostlingual, a multilingual collection of poems published by Rab-Rab Press, followed by three poems
A poem by Dan Sociu, translated from the Romanian by Paul Killebrew & Dan Sociu
An excerpt from One, None, and a Hundred Grand by Luigi Pirandello, translated from Italian by Sean Wilsey
An essay from Abraham Jiménez Enoa's The Hidden Island, translated from the Spanish by Lily Meyer
Three poems by Ramón Cote Baraibar, translated from the Spanish by Derek Furr
Two poems by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir, translated from Icelandic by Rachel Britton.
An excerpt from bruno darío's LANTANA OR, THE INDISSOLUBLE EXHALATION, translated from Spanish by Kit Schluter
Three poems from Theory of The Voice and Dream by Liliana Ponce, translated from the Spanish by Michael Martin Shea
From Issue 10, three poems by Najlaa Eltom, translated from Arabic by Mayada Ibrahim
Five poems by Carmen Gallo, translated from Italian by Livia Franchini
From Issue 3, a poem by Luljeta Lleshanaku, translated from the Albanian by Henry Israeli & Shpresa Qatipi
Six poems by Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, translated from the Polish by Peter Constantine
A short story from Clarice Lispector's Covert Joy, translated from Portuguese by Katrina Dodson
Three poems by Emilian Galaicu-Păun, translated from Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and Rareșa Galaicu
A poem by Alireza Nouri, translated from Farsi by Marjan Modarres Sabzevari
A poem by Turgut Uyar, translated from the Turkish by Eylül Doğanay
A poem by Irina Yevsa, translated from the Russian by Jamie Olson
Four poems by Roberta Iannamico, translated from Spanish by Alexis Almeida.
A poem by Carmen Castellote, translated from Spanish by Robin Munby.
From Issue 4, a poem by Aleš Debeljak, translated from the Slovenian by Andrew Zawacki & Aleš Debeljak
Two poems by Kim Yurim, translated from Korean by Megan Sungyoon
Three poems by Simon Johannin, translated from French by Cory Stockwell
Three poems by Laura Pugno, translated from the Italian by Julia Nelsen
From the poem by Stéphane Bouquet, translated from French by Kenneth Reveiz
From Issue 12, three poems from O by Judith Kiros, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson with Judith Kiros
An excerpt from TO SIT ON THE EARTH by Tobie Nathan, translated from French by Joyce Zonana with Janet Lee
Two poems by Leanne Ellul, translated from Maltese by Helena Camilleri
From Issue 12, two poems by Veyyil, translated from Tamil by Janani Ambikapathy
From Issue 12, an excerpt from Faraway the Southern Sky by Joseph Andras, translated from French by Simon Leser
Madeleine Adams talks to translator Michael Lipkin about An Ordinary Youth by Walter Kempowski
An excerpt from Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga, translated from Japanese by Sam Bett
From Issue 12, an excerpt from Buddhabhaṭṭa's The Investigation of Gems, translated from Sanskrit by James D. Reich
Three poems by Maricela Guerrero, translated from Spanish by Jack Rockwell
A poem from In the Glittering Maw by Joyce Mansour, translated from French by C. Francis Fisher
Three poems dedicated to Alexei Navalny
Two poems from Abounding Freedom by Julien Gracq, translated from French by Alice Yang
Three poems from Late Montale by Eugenio Montale, translated from Italian by George Bradley
A poem by Suryakant Tripathi, translated from Hindi by Purbasha Roy
Four poems by Melita Matsinhe, translated from Mozambican Portuguese by Beth Hickling-Moore
An interview with Eliana Hernández-Pachón, author of The Brush, and translator Robin Myers
Five poems by Park Joon, translated from Korean by Susan K
Two poems by Rosa Berbel, translated from Spanish by Jane Stringham
Two poems by Saadi Youssef, translated from Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
Four poems by Orland Agustin Solis, translated from Hiligaynon by Eric Abalajon
Three poems by Marina Colasanti, translated from Portuguese and Italian by Adria Frizzi
Two poems by Anna Davtyan, translated from Armenian by Shushan Avagyan
From Issue 11, an essay from HERETICAL AESTHETICS by Pier Paolo Pasolini, translated from Italian by Alessandro Giammei and Ara H. Merjian.
Two poems by Nukata no Ōkimi, translated from Japanese by Naoko Fujimoto
Three poems by Marie-Claire Bancquart, translated from French by Claire Eder and Marie Moulin-Salles
Two poems by Katrina Haddad, translated from Ukrainian by Roman Turovsky
Four poems by Harry Salmenniemi, translated from Finnish by Henri Antikainen
An excerpt from the book-length poem Kús by Karen Villeda, translated from Spanish by Allana Noyes
Five poems by Reetta Pekkanen, translated from Finnish by Jordan Barger
A self-translated poem by Lúcia Leão
Four poems by Mariangela Gualtieri, translated from Italian by Olivia Sears
Two poems by Manjul, translated from Nepali by Haris Adhikari
A poem by Dmitry Blizniuk, translated from Russian by Sergey Gersimov
An excerpt from DOMAINE OF THE STICKY by Hélène Sanguinetti, translated from French by Ann Cefola
Five anonymous folk poems, translated from Latvian by Bitite Vinklers
A poem by Eugenia Toledo-Keyser, translated from Spanish by Erin Goodman
From Issue 11, four poems by Menke Katz, translated from Yiddish by Jacob Romm
Three poems by Julieta Vittore Dutto, translated from Spanish by Emma Lloyd
Five poems by Bai Juyi (白居易), translated from Chinese by Aaron Poochigian
Four poems by Sofia Parnok, translated from Russian by Samuel Proffitt Driver
From Issue 11, three poems by Samuel Solleiro, translated from Galician by Jacob Rogers
From Issue 11, five poems by Tomaž Šalamun, translated from Slovenian by Brian Henry
A poem from Ovid's HEROINES, translated from Latin by Josh Boardman
Two poems by Larissa Joonas, translated from Russian by Mark Wingrave
Two poems from Before Wisdom: The Early Poems by Paul Verlaine, translated from French by Keith Waldrop
A poem by Ror Wolf, translated from German by Hunter Bolin
Five poems from ABYSS AND SONG by George Sarantaris, translated from Greek by Pria Louka
A poem by Deniz Durukan, translated from Turkish by Jeffrey Kahrs & Mete Özel
Two poems from DELICATES by Wendy Guerra, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
An essay from "Notes on Autumn Crowds" by Yi Sang, translated from Korean by Jack Jung
Five poems from Sólgarðurin by Beinir Bergsson, translated from Faroese by Marita Thomsen
A poem by A. Liessin, translated from Yiddish by Dov Greenwood.
Three poems by Jaime Francisco Matorras, translated from Spanish by René Milet
From Issue 10, a poem by Atefeh Chaharmahalian, translated from Persian by Lida Nosrati
Three poems by Ma Hua, translated from Chinese by Winnie Zeng
A poem by Kirmen Uribe, translated from Basque by Elizabeth Macklin
A poem excerpted from PROXIMAL MOROCCO by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, translated from French by Jake Syersak
A poem by Artur Dron, translated from Ukrainian by Hanna Leliv
Two poems by Rena Zhuman, translated from Russian by Shelley Fairweather-Vega
Three poems from The Loveliest Vowel Empties by Meret Oppenheim, translated from German by Kathleen Heil
Two poems from On Centaurs and Other Poems by Zuzanna Ginczanka, translated from Polish by Alex Braslavsky
An essay by Tatsushi Fujihara, translated from Japanese by Sam Bett
A poem by Salvatore Quasimodo, translated from Italian by Charles Guenther.
Two poems by Ion Monoran, translated from Romanian by Marius Surleac & Marc Vincenz
Four poems by Milena Marković, translated from Serbian by Steven and Maja Teref
A poem by Martha Asunción Alonso, translated from Spanish by Robin Munby
A poem by Gavrilla Derzhavin, translated from Russian by John Hamel and Peter Orte.
Three poems by Piotr Maur, translated from Polish by Katarzyna Jakubiak
A poem by Ignacio Elizalde Johnson, translated from Spanish by Thania Muñoz D.
Five poems from In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century, translated by Wong May
Three poems by Elías Knörr, translated from Icelandic by Kári Tulinius
A poem by Shin Youngbae, translated from Korean by Eunice Lee
A poem by Pura López-Colomé, translated from Spanish by Jason Stumpf
Two poems by Louisa Siefert, translated from French by Laura Nagle
A poem by Eminescu, translated from Romanian by Delia Radu.
Two poems by Heeduk Ra, translated by Won-Chung Kim & Christopher Merrill
A choral ode by Sophokles, translated by Phillip Dupesovski
An excerpt from Simultaneities & Lyric Chemisms by Ardengo Soffici, translated by Olivia Sears
Three poems by Julian Schutting, translated by Sebastian Smallshaw
Three poems by Grazi Shimizu, translated by Daniel Persia
An excerpt from No Way in the Skin without This Bloody Embrace by Jean D’Amérique, translated by Conor Bracken.
Five poems by Kristin Berget, translated by Kathleen Maris Paltrineri
Three poems by Lou Andreas-Salomé, translated by Sofija Popovska
Three poems by Gleb Shulpyakov, translated by Christopher Mattison
A poem by Pēters Brūveris, translated by Inara Cedrins
Three poems by Ulrike Almut Sandig, translated by Karen Leeder
Three poems by Veronica Stefanet, translated by Monica Cure
From Copy by Dolores Dorantes, translated by Robin Myers.
An essay on translation by Jerzy Jarniewicz, translated by Katarzyna Szuster-Tardi.
A poem by Gane Todorovski, translated by Sofija Popovska.
Three poems by Maria Galina, translated by Ainsley Morse and Anna Halberstadt
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issue 11
news, interviews, & criticism
“Excellent language, excellent” We celebrated the launch of this website on Friday, May 18th, 2012, …
New York’s Russian Bookstore #21, located on the second floor of an unassuming office building, at the end of a flight of drab stairs, was the venue for a Russian-language reading and talk by poet, editor, critic, and translator Dmitry Kuzmin on April 18, 2012…
Mary Jo Bang speaks with E.C. Belli about the process of carrying this epic journey over into our English.
Iris Cushing asks Inger Christensen’s translator about process, affinity and language on the 50th anniversary of Christensen’s literary debut (her first book, Light, just published in English by New Directions last year, came out in 1962).
On Hans Favery’s Chrysanthemums, Rowers, tr. by Francis R. Jones and Lela Favery
Part 2 of Iris Cushing’s interview of Inger Christensen’s translator. Read part one and an excerpt from alphabet.
Editor Elizabeth Clark Wessel talks with emerging translator E.C. Belli.
A celebration of poet Nicanor Parra's centennial
An interview with Joshua Beckman about Tomaž and translating Tomaž Šalamun
An interview with Eliana Hernández-Pachón, author of The Brush, and translator Robin Myers
Madeleine Adams talks to translator Michael Lipkin about An Ordinary Youth by Walter Kempowski
Alexey Mozyaev talks to poet Dinara Rasuleva about Lostlingual, a multilingual collection of poems published by Rab-Rab Press, followed by three poems
sights and sounds
Welcome to the second episode of Circumference Radio.
In this episode, Montana Ray speaks with Mónica de la Torre about her new book Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat Books, 2020).
In this episode, Montana Ray interviews historian, theorist, and translator Lawrence Venuti
n this episode Montana Ray interviews Jennifer Hayashida, poet-translator and Director of Asian American Studies at Hunter College.
In this interview Montana Ray talks with poet, translator, and scholar Jennifer Scappettone about her translations and research on the Italian poet Amelia Rosselli.
In this episode, Montana Ray speaks with poet-translator-scholar Odi Gonzales about growing up in Peru with two mother tongues.
In this episode Montana Ray speaks with Yusef Komunyakaa, Goutam Datta, and Subodh Sarkar about exchanges between US and Bengali poets
In this series Montana Ray talks with translators about their process and poetics. Ray will explore and challenge our understanding of the craft and its role in contemporary literature.
In this series Montana Ray talks with translators about their process and poetics. Ray will explore and challenge our understanding of the craft and its role in contemporary literature.
In this series Montana Ray talks with translators about their process and poetics. Ray will explore and challenge our understanding of the craft and its role in contemporary literature.