{"id":591,"date":"2013-04-17T21:52:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T01:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/?p=591"},"modified":"2014-02-24T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T20:31:57","slug":"a-good-translation-is-like-a-happy-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/2013\/04\/17\/a-good-translation-is-like-a-happy-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Translation is Like a Happy Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Poet Vera Pavlova and her translator Steven Seymour, who also happens to be her husband, read a selection of poetry in Russian and English translation in the Biblio Caf\u00e9 on Valentine’s Day 2013.<\/p>\n

Seniors Alex North, Caitlin Moriarty, and Maria Smirnova also read translations of Pavlova’s newest, unpublished poems. They had prepared these translations together with Pavlova and Seymour earlier in the week as part of their senior seminar in translation.<\/p>\n

Mackenzie Stricklin ’16, a second-semester Russian student, attended the reading:\u00a0“It was great to hear the poems\u00a0in their original form and I loved how they sounded, even if I couldn’t understand every word. Vera Pavlova was so animated while she was reciting her poems. She moved her arms around, made eye contact, and used interesting intonation, which made the poems fun to listen to. Plus the poetry was beautifully written and translated.”<\/p>\n

Barrett Ziegler,\u00a0a\u00a0first-year Russian student\u00a0and\u00a0a\u00a0poet himself,\u00a0thought that\u00a0“hearing her recite was beautiful. Even being\u00a0unable\u00a0to grasp everything she said, the rhythm was something that crossed all linguistic boundaries.”<\/p>\n\n\t\t