Un long entretien en italien de John Taylor par la poétesse Franca Mancinelli sur le site littéraire Poesia del nostro tempo. Il s’agit d’une discussion sur l’Europe — son arrivée à l’université d’Hambourg en 1975, son séjour sur l’île de Samos en 1976-1977, son arrivée à Paris en 1977 — et puis sur sa collaboration […]
Read MoreA long interview in Italian with John Taylor, conducted by the poet Franca Mancinelli, on the literary website Poesia del nostro tempo, about his arrival in Europe in 1975, his studies at the University of Hamburg (1975-1976), his stay on the island of Samos (1976-1977), his arrival in France in 1977. With a passage about his […]
Read MoreTrois poèmes du recueil Remembrance of Water & Twenty-Five Trees (Bitter Oleander Press) ont été publiés en italien (traduction Marco Morello) sur le site littéraire italien Atelier. Voici le troisième poème choisi: The Silver Maple you scratch the first initial into the smooth gray bark with a chip of broken glass found behind the […]
Read MoreThree poems from Remembrance of Water & Twenty-Five Trees (Bitter Oleander Press), in Marco Morello’s Italian translation, have been published on the Italian literary website Atelier. Here is the third of the three poems chosen, « The Silver Maple » / « L’acero argenteo »: The Silver Maple you scratch the first initial into the smooth gray bark with […]
Read MoreUn 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 […]
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