”Reading Charles Reznikoff: The Plain Sunlight of His Verse,” a collection of essays edited by Xavier Kalck, Fiona McMahon, and Naomi Toth, has been released.
My essay, ”Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony into Spanish,” is included.
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Living and Seeing Charles Reznikoff (2024) is now available on PennSound:
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Today, January 22nd, the anniversary of the death in 1976 of one of Allen's favorite poets, the under-sung and great Charles Reznikoff allenginsberg.org/2023/08/t-a-...
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On November 12, 2023, Roberto Bernal reviewed my translation of Testimony for La Jornada Semanal.
semanal.jornada.com.mx/2023/11/12/u...
Rebecca Zweig wrote an essay, translated by Nicolás Medina Mora, on Charles Reznikoff for the February 2023 issue of Revista Nexos. With illustrations by Jaque Jours. An excerpt of my translation follows it.
www.nexos.com.mx?p=71285
On July 2024, I wrote an essay on the American translation of Soto Román's “11,” translated by Alexis Almeida, Daniel Beauregard, Daniel Borzutzky, Whitney DeVos, Jèssica Pujol Duran, Patrick Greaney, and Robin Myers. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/07...
During the conference, I met Chilean poet Carlos Soto Román. He asked me to translate my presentation into Spanish. He then published it in Chile, with a brief introduction by him.
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During the conference, I met poet Jena Osman. I translated and published one of her poems here: semanal.jornada.com.mx/2024/02/18/u...
On October 2024, a short documentary on Charles Reznikoff and his impact on global contemporary poetics—directed by Xavier Kalck, Fiona McMahon, and Naomi Toth—was premiered at Eur ArTec.
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La Maison de la Poésie in Paris hosted a reading in honor of Reznikoff, featuring Dara Barnat, Norman Finkelstein, Stephen Fredman, Andrea Inglese, Jena Osman, Ariel Resnikoff, Sarug Sarano, Carlos Soto Roman, Mark Scroggins & Frank Smith. Full recording here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCD3...
And a presentation at the Feria Internacional del Libro Judío. Many thanks to Tessy Schlosser for the invitation and to Gabriela Jáuregui for joining the conversation.
In spring-summer 2023, I had book presentations in Guadalajara, Mexico City, and Monterrey. I'm grateful to Carlos Ranc†, Carlos Maldonado, Nicolás Medina Mora, Salvador Gallardo Cabrera, Diana Garza Islas, and Antonio Ramos for joining me.
Étienne Garnier has published a detailed description of the conference's panels and round tables. journals.openedition.org/transatlanti...
In June 2023, I participated in CHARLES REZNIKOFF: INSCRIPTIONS (1894-1976), the first international conference dedicated to the life and works of Charles Reznikoff, held at Université Paris Nanterre. My presentation focused mainly on the translation process I developed when translating “Testimony.”
Charles Reznikoff
In 2022, Matadero published my Spanish translation of “Testimony” by Charles Reznikoff, featuring an introduction by Eliot Weinberger.