{"id":9712,"date":"2013-01-19T14:38:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T18:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=9712"},"modified":"2013-01-19T14:38:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T18:38:55","slug":"translating-shakespeares-sonnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/translating-shakespeares-sonnets\/","title":{"rendered":"Translating Shakespeare&#8217;s Sonnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My copy of <strong>The Sonnets<\/strong> just arrived. Lovely, lovely production &amp; a really great enterprise!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=9713\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9713\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9713 lazyload\" alt=\"SonnetsWSH\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SonnetsWSH.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SonnetsWSH.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SonnetsWSH-150x150.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The Sonnets, edited by the founding editors of the translation journal <em style=\"text-align: justify;\">Telephone<\/em>, Shamila Cohen and Paul Legault, pairs 154 poet-translators with each of Shakespeare&#8217;s 154 sonnets \u2014 literally rewriting history, or at least the great Bard&#8217;s poetic oeuvre. This collection of English-to-English &#8220;translations&#8221; includes work by Rae Armantrout, Mary Jo Bang, Jen Bervin, Paul Celan, Tan Lin, Harryette Mullen, Ron Padgett, Donald Revell, Jerome Rothenberg, Juliana Spahr, and many others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the tradition of Ezra Pound&#8217;s Cathay or Jack Spicer&#8217;s After Lorca, these versions explore the themes of their originals while completely re-authoring them&#8211;imagining a new Shakespeare, self-described in his dedication to The Sonnets as: &#8220;THE WELL-WISHING. ADVENTURER &#8230; SETTING FORTH.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My copy of The Sonnets just arrived. Lovely, lovely production &amp; a really great enterprise! \u00a0The Sonnets, edited by the founding editors of the translation journal Telephone, Shamila Cohen and Paul Legault, pairs 154&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,91,103],"tags":[1332,1333],"class_list":["post-9712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-launch","category-poetry","category-translation","tag-shakespeare","tag-the-sonnets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9718,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}