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A Woman By Heinrich Heine, Susan Mclean

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Translated from the German by Susan McLean.

A Nomad’S Progression To The Settled Life By Yuri Vaella, Claude Clayton Smith

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Translated from the Russian by Claude Clayton Smith and Alexander Vaschenko with commentary by Claude Clayton Smith.

Geta, My House, And Bowing Low (The Promulgation Of The Constitution) By Takamura Kōtarō, Leanne Ogasawara

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Leanne Ogasawara.

Commentary On Translating Rose Ausländer, Ingeborg Bachmann, And Nelly Sachs, Rebekah Wilson

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Notes by Rebekah Wilson on translating four German poems into English.

If Only I Knew By Nelly Sachs, Rebekah Wilson

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Translated from the German by Rebekah Wilson.

To Say Dark Things By Ingeborg Bachmann, Rebekah Wilson

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Translated from the German by Rebekah Wilson.

At The End Of Time By Rose Ausländer, Rebekah Wilson

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Translated from the German by Rebekah Wilson.

Bzzz..., Banned, And Indecent Sonnet By Boris Vian, Jennifer Carr

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Translated from the French with commentary by Jennifer Carr.

Direction, Funeral Train, Pain, And When The World Perishes By Yoshiro Ishihara, Goro Takano

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Goro Takano.

Beneath The Moss By Fujiwara Shunzei, Roselee Bundy

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Roselee Bundy.

Flower On A Grave By Doi Bansui, Nicholas Albertson

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Nicholas Albertson.

Condoleezza Rice’S Piano By Sa‘Dī Yūsuf, Levi Thompson

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Translated from the Arabic with commentary by Levi Thompson.

Ballade Iii By Christine De Pizan, Maryann Corbett

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Translated from the French with commentary by Maryann Corbett.

Islands By Blaise Cendrars, Victoria Le

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Translated from the French with commentary by Victoria Le.

Tumult By Pierre Reverdy, Dan Bellm

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Translated from the French with commentary by Dan Bellm.

The Picket Fence By Christian Morgenstern, John Perry

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Translated from the German with commentary by John Perry.

Commentary On Translating Tan Yuanchun, Zhu Heling, Song Wan, And Yao Nai, Andrew Gudgel

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Notes by Andrew Gudgel on the translation of four Chinese poems into English.

Mountain Temple By Yao Nai, Andrew Gudgel

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Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.

Mapao Spring By Song Wan, Andrew Gudgel

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Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.

The Green Wutong Tree By Zhu Heling, Andrew Gudgel

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Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.

A Vase Of Plum Flowers By Tan Yuanchun, Andrew Gudgel

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Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.

After The War By Arseny Tarkovsky, Philip Metres, Dimitri Psurtsev

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Translated from the Russian by Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev with commentary by Philip Metres.

Foreword, David Kutzko, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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Thoughts on the inaugural volume by editors-in-chief David Kutzko and Molly Lynde-Recchia.

Transference Vol. 1, Summer 2013

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Transference is published by the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University. Dedicated to the celebration of poetry in translation, the journal publishes translations from Arabic, Chinese, French and Old French, German, Classical Greek and Latin, Japanese, and Russian into English verse. Transference contains translations as well as commentaries on the art and process of translating.

Malory And Christianity: Essays On Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, Thomas Hanks Jr., Janet Jesmok

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

As Hanks and Jesmok note in their introduction, "pursuing opponents and pursuing love move the Morte's narrative, but the work's richness comes from its romance and tragic elements: the human quest for maturity and fulfillment and those uncontrollable forces that undermine the quest and destroy the dream. Malory's use of myth and magic to explore these themes has received extensive scholarly attention, but his views on and thematic use of Christianity have long needed a closer look."

Witness For The Prosecution: Erasure Poetics, Samantha M. Schaefer

Honors Theses

My Honors Senior Thesis is centered around the art of Erasure poetics. My definition of Erasure is most concisely stated as: a process of simultaneous poetic addition and subtraction to preexisting text, which results in a product whose creation process ultimately echoes the same revision process that human beings undergo; a process by which a new and beautiful truth is both created and uncovered in a paradoxical manner. I initially endeavored to complete a simple erasure of a collection of short stories by Agatha Christie called Witnessfor the Prosecution; but was soon so inspired that I ended up creating four …

The Principle Of Flickering, Laura K. Donnelly

Dissertations

The Principle of Flickering is a collection of poems that map our endeavors to survive and make sense of the flux of the world. The title poem introduces the reader to the ways the collection will approach this survival - through the poem's movement into and out of the frames of other art forms, its process of filtering a collage of voices, and its attempts to momentarily apprehend and still sources of internal and external chaos. Subsequent poems continue this engagement with survival in a variety of ways, including a lyrical study of the evolution of finches ("Darwin's Finches"), a …

Stopping For Death: Plays, Poetry, And Prose, Sally Johnson

Honors Theses

Thesis consists of plays and poetry composed by Sally Johnson.

Ladies, Whores, And Holy Women: A Sourcebook In Courtly, Religious, And Urban Cultures Of Late Medieval Germany, Ann Marie Rasmussen, Sarah Westphal-Wihl

TEAMS Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions

This sourcebook presents editions and translations of seven fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts that advance our understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late medieval German-speaking world. Three of the translated texts are fiction. Additionally, there is a religious treatise, a religious legend, an inventory of books, and a legal document. While each of these texts is instructive in and of itself, they gain in complexity when brought into dialogue with one another.

Neon Allegiance, Jason Paul Olsen

Dissertations

This collection of thirty-one poems is built around my personal search for place, the idea of "home," and how it is relationship more than mere geography that defines the places one encounters in a life. In these poems, that idea of "home" ties back to intimate relationships with family and friends, but also with relationships involving culture—both historical and popular—as a whole.

The collection itself is a pastiche of strategies and stylizations, united by a defined and consistent voice. The geographic locations vary—from Las Vegas (where the largest number of poems and energy are focused) to stops in points across …