In The Beginning, There Was Translation Hopscotch (Falschrum Books and Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024) is a collection of 13 poems in Persian by Fatemeh Shams, accompanied by their English translations by Armen Davoudian, and a series of evocative photographs by Stefan Maneval. This collection delves deeply into the themes of exile, memory, and the internal […]
Since He took you away I still do no work, and never break a sweat. Mostly I’ve taken to making the animals mate for my amusement. So I, like my Maker, have brought forth new life: one creature, the mule, eyes me cantankerously and resents being fed. I spend much time with it, feeling like, […]
by T. P. Sabitha translated from the Malayalam by T. P. Sabitha and K. Satchidanandan first published in Mathrubhoomi (May 31- June 6, 2009) Oblivious fields, which mother’s milk does the penury’s sun boiling in your brimming lap turn into vapour? Village, dancing like an oracle in the festival of green, which parched infant’s cure-forsaken fever makes […]
