Aufgabe is an annual journal of new American poetry, essays, notes, reviews, talks and poetry in translation. Each issue features a guest edited selection of work from outside the U.S. in English translation.

Aufgabe #8
Featuring Russian poetry & poetics in translation
guest edited by Matvei Yankelevich
Original art by Kim Beck

September 2009 • 320 pp. • 6" x 9" • $12.00
ISBN: 978-1-933959-09-2 • ISSN: 1532-5539
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"As translation is a mode of its own, the task of the translator, too, may be regarded as distinct and clearly differentiated from the task of the poet...

Unlike a work of literature, translation does not find itself in the center of the language forest but on the outside facing the wooded ridge; it calls into it without entering, aiming at that single spot where the echo is able to give, in its own language, the reverberation of the work in the alien one."

— from "The Task of the Translator," Walter Benjamin
("Die Aufgabe des Ubersetzers")
Harry Zohn, translator

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