The translation problems that you have struggled with the hardest, perhaps never satisfied with your solutions, will stay with you for a long time—you can count on it. A few years ago, in June, on a trip to France, I was taken by French friends for a wine-tasting in the small Burgundian t ...
Adapted from the essay “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits” in Essays One . * The following are just my personal pieces of advice. They won’t be the same as someone else’s, and they may not fit your life or practice, but maybe you’ll pick up something useful. 1 ...
By Chard deNiord January 19, 2023 On Poetry Photo by Abigail Simic. I first met Charles Simic in 1994 at dinner to celebrate the Harvard Review’s special issue dedicated to Simic. I had written an essay for the issue titled “He Who Reme ...
