Published: 2022-01-17

Preface

Judy Shoaf

v–vii

Abstract

This issue is an issue of transitions, edited in a world of transitions. Hal. H. Rennert, who has been the editor-in-chief and...

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A Note from the New Editor

Ben Hebblethwaite

133–134

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Greetings! I’m Ben Hebblethwaite, and I’m serving as the new Editor of Delos from 2022 to 2024. Rori Bloom is serving as the Book...

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Interview with Hal H. Rennert, Editor-in-Chief of Delos 2015–201

Sylvie Blum-Reid

135–140

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Interview with Delos editor emeritus Hal H. Rennert by Sylvie Blum-Reid

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Nine Sonnets by Louise Labé

Dorothy Trench Bonett, J. Kates (Translator)

141–168

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Translations of sonnets by the French Renaissance poet Louise Labé by two different American translators, followed by a conversation between the...

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“Wild West Cambridge at Dusk” by Xu Zhimo

Stuart Lyons (Translator)

169–173

Abstract

Award-winning translation of Xu Zhimo’s Chinese poem inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses.

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Five Poems by Jibanananda Das

Srinjay Chakravarti (Translator)

174–186

Abstract

A free-verse translation of some poems by the mid-20th-century Bengali poet Jibanananda Das.

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“A Sailor’s Moment and Elegy” by Claudia Lars

Philip Pardi (Translator)

187–202

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Translation of Salvadoran woman poet Claudia Lars’s long poem dedicated to her Irish-American father.

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Four Poems from The Blue of Cancellation by Maria Attanasio

Lisa Mullenneaux (Translator)

203–213

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Translation of selected poems by the Sicilian woman poet Marie Attanasio, with an emphasis on the presence of African immigrants in contemporary...

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"Blood on the Sand" by Epitácio Pais

Paul Melo e Castro (Translator)

214–220

Abstract

Translation of an unpublished police detective story, a murder mystery, by the Goan writer Epitácio Pais.

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Eleven Short Texts about Reading by Givi Margvelashvili

Marc Silberman (Translator)

221–229

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Translation of short texts by the late-20th-century German-Georgian writer Givi Margvelashvili. The texts propose literary puzzles...

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"Pneumonia" by Luigi Malerba

Anna Chiafele, Lisa Pike (Translator)

230–238

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Translation of Luigi Malerba’s short story “Pneumonia” from his early collection “Discovery of the Alphabet,” exploring the lives of rural...

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An American Lover by Philippe Sollers

Armine Kotin Mortimer (Translator)

239–255

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Translation of Philippe Sollers’s story/novella, Un Amour Américain. While this is an idyllic tale of a decades-long heterosexual...

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“The Tempest” by Bao Ninh

Quan Manh Ha, Cab Tran (Translator)

256–275

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A complete translation of the Vietnamese writer Bao Ninh’s 1992 story “Gio Dai,” set during the war and depicting the destruction visited on his...

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“The New Flower” by Thomas Boberg

Peter Sean Woltemade (Translator)

276–281

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Translation of the first chapter of the 2019 novel Africana by the Danish poet and writer Thomas Boberg, describing a visit to Addis...

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Jacques Derrida’s TR

Trace, Translation, Deconstruction

Dragan Kujundžić

282–291

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A look at Derrida’s translation theory and its influence on translation practice from Japan to Serbo-Croatia.

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Giuseppe Ungaretti’s “Mattina” and Untranslatability

Geoffrey Brock

292–295

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An examination of the problems of translating a short but famous poem, Giuseppe Ungaretti’ s “Mattina.”

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The Divine Boys by Laura Restrepo, translated by Carolina De Robertis

Victor M. Jordán-Orozco

292–295

Abstract

Review of:


Laura Restrepo, The Divine Boys. Translated by Carolina De Robertis. Seattle: Amazon Crossing, 2020.

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I Want a Baby and Other Plays by Sergei Tretyakov, translated by Robert Leach and Stephen Holland

Dominick Lawton

300–305

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Review of: 


I Want a Baby and Other Plays by Sergei Tretyakov, translated by Robert Leach and Stephen Holland

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Der Sandmann / The Sandman by E. T. A. Hoffmann, edited and translated by Jolyon Timothy Hughes

Patrick Ploschnitzki

306–310

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Review of: 


Der Sandmann / The Sandman by E. T. A. Hoffmann, edited and translated by Jolyon Timothy Hughes

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Notes on Contributors

311–315

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Notes on the contributors to Delos 36-2

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