Un bel article sur The Little Book of Passage (Bitter Oleander Press) de Franca Mancinelli dans World Literature Today. Benjamin Myers écrit: Italian poet Franca Mancinelli’s The Little Book of Passage, with facing-page translation by John Taylor, exemplifies the best possibilities of the prose-poem form. As James Longenbach notes in his excellent book The Art of the Poetic […]
Read MoreA very fine review of Franca Mancinelli’s The Little Book of Passage (Bitter Oleander Press) in World Literature Today. Benjamin Myers writes: Italian poet Franca Mancinelli’s The Little Book of Passage, with facing-page translation by John Taylor, exemplifies the best possibilities of the prose-poem form. As James Longenbach notes in his excellent book The Art of the […]
Read MoreTrois poèmes de Remembrance of Water & Twenty-Five Trees (Bitter Oleander Press) ont été traduits en italien par Marco Morello dans le Journal of Italian Translation (vol. XIII, No. 2, automne 2018). Voici le premier poème de la série « Triptych »: The Edge everywhere snow peaks glaciers passes you imagined but only a […]
Read MoreLe recueil Nihil (Xenos Books, 2017) d’Alfredo de Palchi a été présenté par Paul Vangelisti dans le Journal of Italian Translation (vol. XIII, No. 2, automne 2018): « John Taylor’s work is exemplary in treating a poet like de Palchi, who’s temperamentally as well as culturally challenging to carry over into English. Taylor’s translating skills, combined with his knowledge […]
Read MoreThree poems from Remembrance of Water & Twenty-Five Trees (Bitter Oleander Press) have been translated into Italian by Marco Morello and published in the Journal of Italian Translation (Vol. XIII, No. 2, Fall 2018). Here is the first poem of the three (from the sequence « Triptych »): The Edge everywhere snow peaks glaciers passes […]
Read MoreIn the Journal of Italian Translation (Volume XIII, No. 2, Fall 2018). Paul Vangelisti’s fine review of Alfredo de Palchi’s Nihil (Xenos Books, 2017): « John Taylor’s work is exemplary in treating a poet like de Palchi, who’s temperamentally as well as culturally challenging to carry over into English. Taylor’s translating skills, combined with his knowledge of […]
Read MoreLe site américain Poetry Daily a choisi un poème en prose du livre The Little Book of Passage (Bitter Oleander Press) pour leur présentation quotidienne: But you bring clay. You add more clay from the beginning of the world. You go to the broken, empty places. You are beckoned by the warm places, a sweaty […]
Read MorePoetry Daily has chosen a prose poem from The Little Book of Passage (Bitter Oleander Press) for its daily feature: « But you bring clay. You add more clay from the beginning of the world. You go to the broken, empty places. You are beckoned by the warm places, a sweaty manual worker who smiles when […]
Read MoreAn excellent article on Le dernier cerisier (Éditions Voix d’encre) by Claire-Neige Jaunet on the website of Mobilis: Le dernier cerisier de John Taylor, un recueil de poèmes où la « lumière ourlée de noir » est celle du paysage intérieur, à la fois dévasté et rayonnant. Lecture de Claire-Neige Jaunet. Une estampe : voilà le mot qui vient […]
Read MoreTrès bel article de Claire-Neige Jaunet sur Le dernier cerisier (Éditions Voix d’encre) sur le site de Mobilis. Le dernier cerisier de John Taylor, un recueil de poèmes où la « lumière ourlée de noir » est celle du paysage intérieur, à la fois dévasté et rayonnant. Lecture de Claire-Neige Jaunet. Une estampe : voilà le mot qui […]
Read More