[New-Poetry] mandelstam translations

[Alexander Dickow]

Crisman,
Nuther case in point. I doubt it's the most "accurate"
or literal translation, but the Mandelstam I keep
coming back to is the one by Greene, in the Eyesight
of Wasps selected poems version (I think he's revised
and republished this under some different title). I
can't read the Russian (and Mandelstam is really hard
anyway, so they tell me), but I like the poems: should
I then worry about their relation to the originals *at
all*, since I can't read them? I don't think so,
really. 
That said, recommendations for *even better*
translations of Mandelstam are always welcome.
Amicalement,
Alex

www.alexdickow.net/blog/
   
  les mots! ah quel désert à la fin
  merveilleux. -- Henri Droguet