Anthology: The Task of the Translator-Poet</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Anthology: The Task of the Translator-Poet"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Anthology,The,Task,of,the,Translator-Poet"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">13-10-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Anthology: The Task of the Translator-Poet</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">New York, USA (Brooklyn Rail): Imagine you are going to select representative poems from poets as varied as Li Po (the Frank O’Hara of Chinese poetry) and Lao Tzu (an Aristotelian figure), but you are going to translate these poems into a language diametrically different from the one in which they were composed and compile them in a comprehensive, cohesive manner for an audience of people who may have little or no experience with the poets or the tradition you hope to represent. Without diminishing Allen’s editorial tribulations, which were surely as myriad and complex as Hinton’s, this should give you some sense of the accomplishment Hinton’s work embodies. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/10/books/anthology-the-task-of-the-translator-poet " target="blank">www.brooklynrail.org/2008/10/books/anthology-the-task-of-the-translator-poet </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show