

1 / 3How do we leap across the abyss between languages? What do we alter and what do we faithfully preserve in the translation of something as delicate as a poem? Carlie Hoffman translates Song of the Yellow Asters from the German, presenting this living song of remembrance of the Holocaust, its victims, and its horrors in resilient lyric poetry. Jack Saebyok Jung takes the legendary Kim Hyesoon’s Lady No from Korean into English, a collection of Kim’s where she invented a new form called shisanmun – originally posted online as blog comments – sitting somewhere between prose and poetry. In Banbas/Exile: A Ramayan Retelling, Rajiv Mohabir translates the Hindu epic poem anew on his own decolonized terms, informed by his Guyanese ancestry and its diasporas.