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May 26, 2015

Monday Comic by Nin Andrews

(ed note: This comic comes to you on Tuesday because of the Memorial Day weekend. sdh)

Symborska, _Some People Like Poetry,_ 2 Tzeciak Symborska, 2 _Some Like Poetry,_ Cavanagh

This comic was inspired by Chapter 1997 in David Lehman's, State of the Art, in which he compares these two translations. He writes:

So profound is the difference that the concurrent appearance of the two translations seemed itself to constitute a literary event--an ambiguous parable that could yield lessons ranging from the familiar ('"poetry is what is lost in translation'") to the paradoxical ('"poetry is mistranslation").

Posted by on May 26, 2015 at 09:51 AM in Guest Bloggers, Nin Andrews Comics |

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