Jonathan Stalling Poetry, translation, and projects in progress

Jonathan Stalling

Poetry, translation, and projects in progress

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Two Drafts of the Same Silence: Reading Chinese Poetry Beside the Machine
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Two Drafts of the Same Silence: Reading Chinese Poetry Beside the Machine

I fed a four-line Tang poem into three translation engines and then spent a week making my own version. The machines were never wrong, exactly — they were just deaf in places I've learned to listen. A craft note on what fluency still costs, and what readers of translated poetry should put their ear to now.