This volume, with contributions in the form of narrations, or of work sheets, by leading British and American translators, shows what happens: how problems present themselves and how they are resolved.

Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Translating La Cepp de; K.Bosley - J nos Pilinszky's 'Desert of Love': A Note; J.Csokits - A Postscript; T.Hughes - Kafka and the Golem: Translating Paul Celan; J.Felstiner - Brief Afterthoughts on Versions of a Poem by H lderlin; M.Hamburger - Translating Martial and Virgil: Jacob Lowland among the Classics; J.S.Holmes - Translating Nerval: A Reply to a Letter by Richard Holmes; P.Jay - Translating Penna and Cernuda: Working Papers; J.Kirkup - Revising Brodsky; G.L.Kline - Translating Anna Akhmatova; S.Kunitz - Voice, Landscape, Violence, S nnevi into English in Helsinki; R.Lesser - Translating Juarroz and Noren: Working Papers; W.S.Merwin - Playing Scrabble without a Board: On Formal Translation from the Swedish; J.Moffett - 'The Voice Inside': Translating the Poetry of T.Carmi; G.Schulman - Working at Someone Else's Poem; J.Silkin - Translating Horace: Working Papers; C.H.Sisson - Finding the Proper Equivalent: Translating Voznesensky; W.J.Smith - Translating Brodsky: A Postscript; D.Weissbort - Le Pont Mirabeau; R.Wilbur & P.Auster