Winner of the Robert Fagles Prize for contemporary poetry in translationEl na Rivera's translation of Bernard No l's The Rest of the Voyage is at once original and remarkably faithful--indeed, its originality lies in the care and music the translator has brought to her commitment to follow No l's forms as closely as possible. Rivera succeeds beautifully in setting the rhythms of the French original into English. The succession of poems has a fluency that becomes as mesmerizing as any mode of transport, for Rivera is remarkably adept at varying the lines, landing with emphasis or muting the effect as she follows the speed and light of No l's themes. Those themes are no less than a meditation on the traveler's encounter with landscape in the late twentieth century. No l takes on distant shots and close-ups, moving too quickly to see particulars or so slowly that objects become abstractions,...
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