Keijiro Suga's guest appearances

Keijiro Suga

Poetry on the Move podcast

Clarice 100 Ears. Brazil Lab. Princeton University

Idra Novey

Glyn Maxwell

Vahni Capildeo

Simon Armitage

Alvin Pang

Kei Miller

Alison Whittaker

Sarah Holland

Judith Beveridge

Stephen Edgar

Kent MacCarter

Phillip Hall

Ali Cobby Eckerman

Zoe Anderson

Dan Disney

OwlTail

Keijiro Suga is a Tokyo-based poet and critic. Professor of critical theory at the  Meiji University, where he founded the graduate program in Places, Arts, and Consciousness. He shares with us his translation into Japanese of Lispector's story "É pra lá que eu vou". He is the author of "Transversal Journeys", awarded with the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in Japan, in 2011. He has also published five collections of poetry, "Numbers and Twilight" (2017) being the latest. He is also a prolific translator. Among his more than thirty translations are: Poétique de la Relation by Edouard Glissant, La vie scélérate by Maryse Condé, La fête chantée and Raga by J.M.G. Le Clézio, Le postmoderne expliqué aux enfants by Jean-François Lyotard, At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid, Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender, El árbol del conocimiento by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, Paula by Isabel Allende.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/marilia-librandi/message

Keijiro Suga is a Tokyo-based poet and critic. Professor of critical theory at the  Meiji University, where he founded the graduate program in Places, Arts, and Consciousness. He shares with us his translation into Japanese of Lispector's story "É pra lá que eu vou". He is the author of "Transversal Journeys", awarded with the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in Japan, in 2011. He has also published five collections of poetry, "Numbers and Twilight" (2017) being the latest. He is also a prolific translator. Among his more than thirty translations are: Poétique de la Relation by Edouard Glissant, La vie scélérate by Maryse Condé, La fête chantée and Raga by J.M.G. Le Clézio, Le postmoderne expliqué aux enfants by Jean-François Lyotard, At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid, Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender, El árbol del conocimiento by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, Paula by Isabel Allende.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/marilia-librandi/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/marilia-librandi/message</a>

Keijiro Suga (Japan)

Sholeh Wolpe

BothSholeh Wolpé and Keijiro Suga are noted translators of poetry. Suga is ascholar of poetic translation at Meiji University in Tokyo who regularlytranslates from French, English and Spanish into Japanese. Wolpé's translationsfrom Farsi into English (including influential Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad,and the new translation of Attar's Persian classic The Conference of Birds)have opened the rich tradition of Persian poetry to readers in English. In thisdiscussion, hosted by Australian poet Melinda Smith, we asked them to speaktogether about the "art" of translating poetry

Both Sholeh Wolpé and Keijiro Suga are noted translators of poetry. Suga is a scholar of poetic translation at Meiji University in Tokyo who regularly translates from French, English and Spanish into Japanese. Wolpé's translations from Farsi into English (including influential Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, and the new translation of Attar's Persian classic The Conference of Birds) have opened the rich tradition of Persian poetry to readers in English. In this discussion, hosted by Australian poet Melinda Smith, we asked them to speak together about the "art" of translating poetry

POTM Episode 19 – Poet to Poet Keijiro Suga and Sholeh Wolpe