Category Archives: Poetry

Small Symphony of the New World (Pequeña sinfonía del Nuevo Mundo) by Luis Cardoza y Aragón

Posted on December 26, 2021 by The Untranslated

This avant-garde prose poem was written between 1929 and 1932 but published only sixteen years later, well past the heyday of French Surrealism whose influence had shaped the Guatemalan author’s singular and somewhat obscure work. The themes and the language … Continue reading →

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Sicilian Code (Codice siciliano) by Stefano D’Arrigo

Posted on June 21, 2021 by The Untranslated

Before becoming a novelist, Stefano D’Arrigo was an accomplished poet. His first and only poetry collection was more than the acorn from which the giant oak tree of Horcynus Orca eventually grew. Reading Sicilian Code, I wondered what could have … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Matthias Friedrich on ProponeisiS: Zoembient växelverkanvers by Johan Jönson

Posted on March 16, 2021 by The Untranslated

I cannot imagine how someone nowadays could write a poem which is longer than, say, Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, yet Johan Jönson has dared to do exactly this: he has just published a long poem of 2,272 pages, which mainly, but … Continue reading →

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