InThe Howling OwlbyHarold De GaucheRimbaud’s ‘Vowels’ ReimaginedMy ode to the great French master Arthur RimbaudNov 622
San CassimallyIt’s raining tears in my heartPaul Verlaine was born in Metz in 1844, but grew up in Paris. He gets married, and is reconciled to living a sham uneventful life of a…Jul 28
Akhluôdes GêthósunosFrench poetry: how to?Poetry. In that one word, one can find the essence of a language, the very heart of a people’s beauty, bound and intertwined with its own…Jul 1Jul 1
Filippo VanniVIT 2: Baudelaire’s “Beauty”I have decided to name the translations I do here Ventures in Translation (VIT for short). Here is my rendering of a C.B classic, after the…May 19May 19
Filippo VanniVentures in Translation: Baudelaire’s “Le Guignon”My first effort at translating Baudelaire. Le Guignon is a favorite from The Flowers of Evil. I have reproduced the french version, with my…May 17May 17
InThe Howling OwlbyHarold De GaucheRimbaud’s ‘Vowels’ ReimaginedMy ode to the great French master Arthur RimbaudNov 622
San CassimallyIt’s raining tears in my heartPaul Verlaine was born in Metz in 1844, but grew up in Paris. He gets married, and is reconciled to living a sham uneventful life of a…Jul 28
Akhluôdes GêthósunosFrench poetry: how to?Poetry. In that one word, one can find the essence of a language, the very heart of a people’s beauty, bound and intertwined with its own…Jul 1
Filippo VanniVIT 2: Baudelaire’s “Beauty”I have decided to name the translations I do here Ventures in Translation (VIT for short). Here is my rendering of a C.B classic, after the…May 19
Filippo VanniVentures in Translation: Baudelaire’s “Le Guignon”My first effort at translating Baudelaire. Le Guignon is a favorite from The Flowers of Evil. I have reproduced the french version, with my…May 17
Olivia WitkowskiPantoum and ChangeThe Pantoum is a French rooted poem with a nod to Malaysian ancestry. It was later appropriated by colonizers to have a postcolonial…Oct 5, 2023
Corey MillerHead Full of Beauty by Pierre ReverdyIn the gilded, red, frozen, gilded abyss, the abyss where pain lists, the wheeling whirlpools drag my boiling blood through the silt…May 27, 2023