[The following was recently compiled & is posted here as an
indication of the range of translations – solo & in collaboration & by no
means complete – over the last fifty years. (J.R.)]
From German
New Young German Poets (Celan, Grass, Enzensberger, Heissenbüttel, Bachman),
City Lights, 1959.
Rolf Hochhuth, The Deputy, Broadway playing version,
1965, Samuel French.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Poems for People Who Don’t Read Poems (translated
with Michael Hamburger and the author), Atheneum, 1968.
Eugen Gomringer, The Book of Hours & Constellations,
Something Else Press, 1968.
Kurt Schwitters, Poems Performance Pieces Proses Plays
Poetics (with Pierre Joris), Temple
University
Periodical and anthology
publications from Goethe, Heine, Arp, Huelsenbeck, Dieter Rot.
From Spanish
F.G. Lorca, Suites, Green Integer Books, 2001
(earlier in Collected Translations of Lorca, Farrar Straus Giroux).
Pablo Picasso, The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other
Poems (with Pierre Joris & others), Exact Change,2003.
Periodical and anthology
publications from Neruda, Huidobro, Alberti, Cecilia Vicuna, Sor Juana Ines de
la Cruz, Asunción Silva.
From French
Periodical and anthology
publications from Jacob, Tzara, Picabia, Di Manno, and others.
From Czech
Viteszlav Nezval, Antilyrik & Other Poems (with Milos Sovak), Green Integer Books, 2001.
American Indian &
Precolumbian Sources
The Flight of Quetzalcoatl (Aztec), Unicorn Books, U.K.
The 17 Horse Songs of Frank Mitchell (Navajo, with assistance from David P. McAllester), Tetrad Press , U.K.
Songs from the Society of the Mystic Animals (Seneca, with Ian Tyson, Richard Johnny John),
Tetrad Press , U.K.
15 Flower World Variations (Huichol), Membrane Press, Milwaukee
Multiple anthology
publications in Technicians of the Sacred
and Shaking the Pumpkin.
Japanese
Nakahara Chuya, selected
poems, with Yasuhiro Yotsumoto, in progress.
Polish
Cyprian Norwid, “Chopin’s
Piano,” with Arie Galles, in Poems for
the
Millennium,
volume 3, 2009.
Hebrew and Aramaic
Gematria 27, with Harris Lenowitz, Membrane Press, 1977.
Multiple translations with
Harris Lenowitz in A Big Jewish Book (Exiled in the Word), Doubleday, 1977 and
Copper Canyon Press, 1989.
1 comment:
some of the city lights new young german ones are masterpieces unsurpassed by any other versions,
the Krolow, the Celan, the Bachmann
are still better than their later translators' stabs— as for the Enzensbergers, he should have kidnapped you and ensorceled you in some tower and made you his ameramanuensis for life—— "last will and testament" should be required reading in any poetry course . . . (the Grass "Open Wardrobe" almost as good, meaning great—) . . .
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