Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry enamel pins Vampires and ducks don't always

Vampires and ducks don't always get along

She has claimed her ancestral crown

wrote poetry

Shaken but restrained

Walker vanishes

Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry enamel pins Vampires and ducks don't alwaysTransient Worlds: On Translating Poetry is a personal guide to global poetry in translation by 25th US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze. Focusing on an accessible selection of key works, Sze takes readers through nearly two millennia of poetry from every part of the world, constructing fifteen different zones" of literary discussion with a critical focus on the artistic dimensions of translation itself. To do this, Sze engages multiple translations of the