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Art of Translation: Modern Greek Voices, Ancient Greek Sources with George Kalogeris (Valente)

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Location:
Valente Branch
826 Cambridge St.
Cambridge

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Join poet and translator George Kalogeris as he discusses translating works by Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy, examining the challenges of translating poetic grammar and syntax.

George Kalogeris’s most recent book of poems is Winthropos, (Louisiana State University, 2021). He is also the author of Guide to Greece (LSU), a book of paired poems in translation, Dialogos, and poems based on the notebooks of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets. His poems and translations have been anthologized in Joining Music with Reason, chosen by Christopher Ricks (Waywiser, 2010). He is the winner of the James Dickey Poetry Prize, the Stephen J. Meringoff Award, and the Sheila Margaret Motton Prize.

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