Ken Miyazaki
A Collection of Works
(Cover Artist and image below)
Carrying Across:
Crossing Disciplines as a Form of Translation
Preface
The English word translate comes from the Latin translatus, which means “borne” or “carried across”. While the verb to translate is usually applied to the process of bringing the meaning of one language over to another, we wanted to take a more unusual approach by looking at work where poetry had been translated, or literally carried across, to another artform. Often, writers begin and end their writing at the limits of the page. The sui generis work gathered in this issue of Interim pushes against the limits of genre to find the ever-newer spaces where poetry can and does exist [...] Read More
CAConrad
Impaled by Sharp
Points of Wonderment
[ A poem ] from “Resurrect Extinct Vibration,” a (Soma)tic poetry ritual in 9 parts
Arthur Flowers
Rickyydoc on the Conch
[ An excerpt ] from the Hoodoo Book of Flowers
C Pirloul
Riga Pine
[ A conversation ] held over 5 days through 2 hands with a Riga Pine 60 km north of Riga
Sarah Green
Camerae
[ A poem ] after Joseph Cornell
Kevin McLellan
The Corridor
[ An erasure ] of Kevin McLellan’s rendition of Maurice Blanchot’s The Last Man translated by Lydia Davis
Peter Freund
Translations by Nasser Rahmaninejad
Acorus Calamus
A “translational poetics” in which the problematic relationship between image, voice, and subtitle itself poses a metaphor for the question of "translating the other."
[Video poem] with translation text and audio
(still from video shown below)
Mikaela Curry
Dancing with Beautiful Women
[ A poem ] –"Golden Shovel" style–with the last word of each line, in total, comprising the poem, “Awed by Her Splendor”, by Greek poet Sappho
Alexa Smith
Dear River Body Song Instructor
[ A response ] to the video exhibition 2 RIVERS + 30 YEARS by Laura Heyman and Luxin Zhang