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Etymological Gossip
By Uljana Wolf
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By Uljana Wolf
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A collection of experimental essays exploring poetry, translation, and translingual imaginaries.
What if we thought of translation as a visit to a bounce house where languages jump together, trading sound and gesture, whispering their “etymological gossip” into our poems, dreams and dictionaries? In these essays (lectures, charts, cartographies) from the German poet and translator Uljana Wolf, translation comes from a translingual imagination, one that takes as its subject the “illegitimate ...