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Table of Contents
Preface by NEA Chairman Jane Chu ............................................... i
Introduction by NEA Literature Director Amy Stolls ...................ii
I.
“Hearing Voices” by Angela Rodel ................................................. 2
A translator’s journey begins with a love of Bulgarian music.
“Choosing a Twin” by Gregory Pardlo ........................................... 5
On kinship, mental yoga, and the rebirth of a poem.
“Work of Purpose, Work of Joy” by Charles Waugh .................... 9
Giving voice to the invisible and forgotten in Vietnam.
“Living with Translation” by Howard Norman .......................... 13
A writer’s deep and enduring immersion in the joys of translation.
II.
“The Collaborative Approach” by Sylvia Li-chun Lin and
Howard Goldblatt ........................................................................... 18
A married couple explains how two translators make one work of art.
“By the Light of Translation” by Natasha Wimmer ................... 22
How the slowest kind of reading leads to an act of seeing.
“An Act of Imagination” by Philip Boehm ................................... 25
The commonalities between a translator and a theater director.
“Daring and Doubting” by Russell Scott Valentino .................... 29
The translator’s claustrophobic, questioning mind.
“The Sharable Rightness of Meaning” by Esther Allen .............. 33
An ode to the magnificent Michael Henry Heim.