DORIE TURNER writes about Coleman Barks, an American who is honored in Iran at a time when relations between the United States and Iran are strained. Banks has carved out a name for himself by way of his widely accepted translations of Rumi.
Bly seems often to be at the center of stories about translation. I am rather fond of Bly’s work myself.
My youngest daughter (a senior this year) is quite fluent in French. All her schooling up to high school was in a French emersion school. Past two years she has split class time between her high school and a college where she is taking French because she was already well advanced beyond anything the high school language dept could offer her.
I would like to at some tome set down with her and have her translate some of my own work to French just for grins.
The challenges presented by translation are fascinating to me
Bly seems often to be at the center of stories about translation. I am rather fond of Bly’s work myself.
ReplyDeleteMy youngest daughter (a senior this year) is quite fluent in French. All her schooling up to high school was in a French emersion school. Past two years she has split class time between her high school and a college where she is taking French because she was already well advanced beyond anything the high school language dept could offer her.
I would like to at some tome set down with her and have her translate some of my own work to French just for grins.
The challenges presented by translation are fascinating to me