Translation of poetry, re-performance of form / from Charles Bernstein for the experiences of "different" Persian poetry.
🔹Muhammad Azram, poetry theorist and literary critic, wrote in a comment to IRNA: "Poetry in translation does not necessarily continue in the same way as before; In another language it faces other possibilities and limitations. The problem is not to eliminate these differences, we need to see if it is possible to rehabilitate poetry as poetry that creates possible relationships within poetry.
The publication of the Chinese version of the book Near/Miss by Charles Bernstein is an excuse to raise a question beyond the transfer of poetry from language to language; When poetry takes shape in its linguistic and formal behaviors, how can translation provide a possibility for its re-realization in another language?
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