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Hosted by Sudeep Sen and Indran Amirthayanagam and featuring Sarah Arvio, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Helen Ivory and Vidyan Ravinthiran— (on Zoom)
There is nothing so beautiful as transforming a poem from a foreign language into your own language. In this class we will work on translating poems from any language into English. We will work on texts already translated, so as to have a comparison text to consult. We will talk about voice, rhythm, style, tone, and diction level; we will learn the pleasure of perusing dictionaries and thesauruses. All skill levels are welcome.
performance and Q & A moderated by Matt Bevis
Accompanied by Spencer Reece, Peg Boyers, Joseph Fasano, Honor Moore, and others in a bilingual reading
Award-winning poet Sarah Arvio presents her new translations of the poetry of Federico García Lorca, recently published as the acclaimed Poet in Spain. She will discuss Lorca’s approach to form, rhythm, and lyricism and his emulation of literary and musical forms as an expression of love and social protest. Describing her strategies for translating Lorca’s varied poetic music, she will read from the cante, the ballads, and the great homoerotic love poems. Arvio will be joined by flamenco guitarist and Lorcaphile Sergio Sánchez-Monge Escardó in performance.
Translating is a beautiful and intriguing way of deepening your writing skills while waiting for your own voice to return to you. But the art of translation also makes a formidable contribution to our literary culture. Think of it as a form of impersonation, of ventriloquism, of paint-by-number, of re-invention and re-creation.
Please join us for a bi-lingual reading of poetry by Federico García Lorca
followed by a discussion of Sarah Arvio's collection of Lorca translations
POET IN SPAIN w/ Sarah Arvio in convo w/ Bécquer Seguín!
workshop continuing on October 19 and 26, and November 9, 16 and 23, same hours
