Ilya Kaminsky on Translating Poetry

In Global Trade Talk by Erin L. Cox

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By Erin L. Cox

In the March Issue of Poetry, Adam Kirsch did an interview with Ilya Kaminsky, the editor of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry. Kirsch asked a lot of questions that might provoke some other questions from you: is there such a thing as an international poem? Do you lose some of the meaning when translating a line of poetry from one language to another? 

In an earlier story, Publishing Perspectives similar questions about what kind of obstacles are there to translation? Does it matter if the work is poetry or fiction or a biography?

Check out what Kaminsky has to say and respond here with your own insights.

About the Author

Erin L. Cox

Erin L. Cox is the Publisher of Publishing Perspectives. She has spent more than 25 years on the business development and promotional side of the publishing industry, working in book publicity at Scribner and HarperCollins, advertising sales and marketing at The New Yorker, and consulting with publishers, literary organizations, book fairs, writers, and technology companies serving the publishing industry. Cox is also the Publisher of Words & Money, a new media site focused on centering libraries in the publishing conversation.