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Originally Posted by Kim C Not G
Do you have any websites or links of any of them? I'd love to read new poetry. Of course, I'm family with cummings, eliot, etc but the foreign language poets I'd be interested in. If you could show me any I'd appreciate it alot.
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oh yeah ,my pleasure!
some of these have been translated more or less. starting with neruda, alastair reid did some great work. i think when "il postino" came out, they reissued some anthologies. (if you haven't seen "il postino", do-- very funny). the borges translations if i recall are done by a guy named norman thomas di giovanni; they were friends & borges (a consummate reader of english) approved of the work. other people tried too-- latin american poetry was pretty popular in america during the 60's. robert bly has done some too. for vallejo, i believe clayton eshleman (sp?) has done the best translations-- but vallejo can be pretty hard in any language. many of these poets haven't been translate , to my knowledge. what i'd do is google the names & see what turns up. a lot of it you come across in anthologies & such. i used to regularly visit used books stores & fish around for gems.
some have been translated into english. once upon a time i helped with an anthology of world poetry that i think is no longer available (im googling) but i saw it a couple of years ago.
do you speak/read any other languages, and if so which ones? some times you can find bilingual editions, which are great. that's what i'll do for german poetry even though i don't understand a word, ha hah (some stuff can be figured out).
i could go on for hours! let me know what interests you most.
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ps: this is the kind of google search im thinking of: jose gorostiza in english only
http://www.google.com/search?q=jose+gorostiza&hl=en&safe=off&client=fire fox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US
fficial&lr=lang_en&sa=X&oi=lrtip9
(not that you'll find something-- but anyway i can help with specifics)