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Jessica Cohen, translator of David Grossman’s award-winning A Horse Walks into a Bar, will discuss the joys and challenges of rendering the work of some of the finest Israeli writers into English.
Poetry Inside Out
Poetry Inside Out is a collaborative language arts curriculum that celebrates classroom diversity, builds literacy skills, improves critical thinking, and unlocks creativity by teaching students to translate great poetry from around the world. By practicing the art of translation, students become familiar with the building blocks of language and the full range of expression available to them as readers, writers, speakers, thinkers, and world citizens.
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A look at the next book in #TheCATBookClub: a novel by Japanese author Masatsugu Ono.
April 17, 2018 -
Verónica Gerber Bicecci and Christina MacSweeney joined us in San Francisco to discuss their collaboration on Empty Set. The conversation touched on exile and postmemory, visual and linguistic codes, and translation as cannibalism. #TheCATBookClub.
April 12, 2018 -
Supplemental material as you begin reading Schwob’s Imaginary Lives and The Children’s Crusade. #TheCATBookClub
April 5, 2018
My pen falls off the table in the New World café on Nowy Świat Street, central Warsaw. I bend down to pick it up, and see two things lying on the floor; as well as the pen, in the crack between the table leg and the wall, there’s a piece of paper—yellow with age and covered in scribble. It’s not a page from an exercise book, more like a notebook. On either side somebody has written a list of people’s names, with the years of their birth—all in the 1930s, and their addresses. I think it must be important to someone, so I would simply hand it in to the waiter, if not for the fact that all the names on it belong to women, and that one of them is a personal friend of mine.