Catherine Barnett Reads Wislawa Szymborska
The New Yorker: Poetry
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The Importance of Shambor Shkatt in Poetry
Shambor Shkatt won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. Her first book, View with a Grain of Sand, was translated by Claire Kavanagh and Stanislaw Baranchak. "I do what I call sort of speed translations, poor translations, fast to just get inside another language," she says.
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