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Translator Interview: Anna Taborska
['Jeanie Goddard', 'Lisette Brodey']
Blog - Samovar
We're very happy to welcome Anna Taborska to the blog, to tell us more about her work and her translation of the poem 'Transformations'/ 'Przemiany' by Bolesław Leśmian (1877-1937), which features in our October 25, 2021 issue, alongside the original Polish. Bolesław Leśmian is known for the innovative and expressionistic style of his poetry - what drew you to his work, and what are some of the challenges and pleasures in translating it? My father published one slim volume of his poetry in his own English translation (For The Witnesses, 1978) and I translated a handful of his poems for a film I made about him, but I hope to translate many more.