[Amherst]

Matvei Yankelevich on The Art of Mistranslation
October 29, 2014, 4:30 pm
at Amherst College

Translator Talks: The Art of Mistranslation: Contemporary Poets Taking Liberties with Baudelaire, Dickinson, Shakespeare and Trakl Matvei Yankelevich is the author of the poetry collection "Alpha Donut" (United Artists Books), the novella-in-fragments "Boris by the Sea" (Octopus Books) and several chapbooks. He is the translator of "Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms" (Ardis) and has contributed translations to several books and anthologies, including Alexander Vvedensky's "An Invitation for Me to Think" (NYRB Poets), "Night Wraps the Sky: Writings By and About Mayakovsky" (FSG) and "Contemporary Russian Poetry" (Dalkey Archive). He is one of the founding editors of Ugly Duckling Presse, where he curates the Eastern European Poets Series. He has taught at the Columbia University School of the Arts, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Naropa), Hunter College and Colorado College, and is a member of Writing Faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. In Fall 2014, he is teaching "The Art of the Book" at Columbia University's School of the Arts and is a visiting professor at Wesleyan University. More information here.