#translatemonth2017

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Today for national translation month spending time walking along ‘the graceless steps of wandering spirits’ in Brandon Shimoda's O BON 🌀 . . . . #NTM2017 #TranslateMonth2017 #poetry

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Happy Saturday 🍂 Turning back to Restless Continent, rich in polylingual imagery and thought, during National Translation Month. . . . . #NTM2017 #TranslateMonth2017 #poetry

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"the frantic pace is kept; the belief, a floating condiment stand." Finding pace with kari edwards' Bharat jiva-- co-pubbed with our lovelies @belladonnaseries . . . . #NTM2017 #TranslateMonth2017 #poetry

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Today, thinking about Attanasio’s landscapes--dreamlike as they are realistic, darkened by poverty, death, inequality and illegal immigration, carved by a sculptural language--seeking to uncover the historical and political strata of everyday life.

http://www.litmuspress.org/books/amnesia-of-the-movement-of-clouds-of-red-and-black-verse/

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"'Sitt' is an Arabic word, used in Lebanon and Syria mostly, and Egypt, to mean 'madam.' It’s not formal. A girl of five years old in conversation can be 'little sitt so-and-so.' 'Sitt' can also be for married or single women. It’s a colloquial way to address a woman. It carries some respect,'" explains Etel Adnan in this interview with Lynne Tillman at BIDOUN.

http://bidoun.org/articles/etel-adnan

🌊 #NTM2017 #TranslateMonth2017 #poetry

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Recapturing some of that labor day peaceful feeling & celebrating National Translation Month with these beauties 💛

http://www.litmuspress.org/books/four-from-japan/

http://www.litmuspress.org/books/well-well-reality/

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Today, unfolding landscapes before the end of National Translation Month. "Here, ‘in the raw center of an open wound,’ there appears an open world." @fredwardine on Xue Di's another kind of tenderness. . . . . #NTM2017 #TranslateMonth2017 #poetry

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— Give me love, damn it. Love" Today we're thinking about Inner China by Eva Sjödin, translated by Jennifer Hayashida. Happy National Translation Month! . . . . #NTM2017 #TranslateMonth2017 #poetry