Taije Silverman's translation of Giovanni Pascoli's "Il Transito" is this week's Guardian "Poem of the week," selected by Carol Rumens. Rumens comments:
A particular pleasure of the collaboration of the poet Taije Silverman and the Italian scholar Marina Della Putta Johnston...is that they bring us poems in English rather than “Translation-English”. The rhythmic structures have a line-by-line integrity that neither imitates the Italian line, nor cramps its energies in a metrical straitjacket. The translations become consistently free-standing poems in their own right.
Read "The Stopover" at the link below: