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i'm looking for books of contemporary russian poets, with translations both gramatically sound, and poetically accurate (language of the translations somewhat conserving the poetic flow of the origional)...
for example, can anyone say how "contemporary russian poetry: a bilingual anthology" ed. gerald s. smith rates?
or
"Modern Russian Poetry: an anthology with verse translations", markov?
thanks

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I went to a talk a Russian poet gave before. I can't for the life of me remember his name, but it was a really interesting talk. He was in the process of translating Séamus Heaney's works into Russian and explained how in his opinion the translation of poetry is a creative process and that he doesn't try to retain the original structure etc., rather he focuses entirely on meaning. Thought you might be interested, because I imagine the anthologies out there vary greatly.

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yes actually that was more what i meant by "poetically accurate"... a creative process that parallels that of the origional work, not that copies it. syntax and structure being in an english poetic flow, however that may differ, vs. a word for word sort of thing. meaning being the most important, and with that the mood conveyed as in the origional, however differently that same mood may be done in the 2nd language.
not expressing that well... but if you remember his name or a link to his work, please let me know!
thx