Hey, I was browsing in a book store and came upon an anthology of New European Poets; so I picked it up, went to the German section, found Gräf's name and, sure enough, you as translator. WTG!
No actually. My complaint was it tried to be too comprehensive. Anthologizing one or at most 4 poems by a poet can't count as an "introduction" to that poet (so they were aiming at introductions to "national litertures," it seems). I would've preferred fewer countries and more poems per poet. But as an all-inclusive compendium of current European states, it's pretty impressive, certainly.
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Hey, I was browsing in a book store and came upon an anthology of New European Poets; so I picked it up, went to the German section, found Gräf's name and, sure enough, you as translator. WTG!
Did you buy the book? I have not read it yet, but it looks pretty impressive!
No actually. My complaint was it tried to be too comprehensive. Anthologizing one or at most 4 poems by a poet can't count as an "introduction" to that poet (so they were aiming at introductions to "national litertures," it seems). I would've preferred fewer countries and more poems per poet. But as an all-inclusive compendium of current European states, it's pretty impressive, certainly.
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