Translating Multilingual Wordplay in Danyil Zadorozhnyi's "Letter to Ukraine"
Translating Multilingual Wordplay in Danyil Zadorozhnyi’s “Letter to Ukraine” , via Wikimedia Commons Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler and Reilly Costigan-Humes's translation of Danyil Zadorozhnyi's "Letter to Ukraine" appears in the February 2021 issue of Words Without Borders . How do you translate a poem into a single language when it is interested in the liminal space between two languages? That was the first question my cotranslator Reilly Costigan-Humes and I asked ourselves when we read Danyil Zadorozhnyi’s “Letter to Ukraine,” a poem that explores questions of national and cult...
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