Poetry
"The meteor" by Eleanor Wilner - Click Here
"With Liberty and Justice: A Few Remarks About Translation" by David R. Slavitt - Click Here
"These were enormously impressive men and their example to me was both wonderful and also in some degree misleading. I assumed that all grown-ups – or grown-up poets, anyway -- translated. It was one of the things you do, like driving a car, or sewing on a button."
Two Odes of Oedipus Tyrannos: Translated by David R. Slavitt - Click Here
"Apologia" by Kathrine Varnes - Click Here
Free or Just Loose: The Scandal of my Scansion by Kathrine Varnes - Click Here
"I have been asked to defend the meter of my sonnet, that is provide an apologia for “Apologia,” against the charge that it is not in iambic pentameter and therefore breaks with traditional form. The task leaves me two options — defend a break with tradition or deny that I break it. Can I do neither and both?"
Ismaliya, Egypt by Shulamith Caine - Click Here