Translation and Transmission of Concrete Poetry

John Corbett is a CAPES International Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Sao Paulo. His numerous books and articles include Language and Scottish Literature (1997) and Written in the Language of the Scottish Nation: A History of Literary Translation into Scots (1999). Ting Huang is a literary translator and doctoral candidate in the English Department of the University of Macau, where she took an MA in Translation Studies in the Portuguese Department and her Bachelor’s degree in Portuguese Studies. She has translated Azul Corvo, by the Brazilian novelist, Adriana Lisboa (2019).

• Acknowledgements & Notes on ContributorsIntroduction John CorbettChapter 1: Concrete Poetry, Playfulness and Translation Susan BassnettChapter 2: The Origins of the Untranslatable: The Earliest Western Visual Poetry Juliana Di Fiori PondianChapter 3: Concrete Poetry in China: Form, Content, Theme and FunctionLi LiChapter 4: Writing and Translating Concrete Poetry in Chinese CharactersChen LiChapter 5: The Structures of Chance: Transcreating Noigandres ideogramas into EnglishClaus ClüverChapter 6: Transcreation without BordersK. David JacksonChapter 7: Edwin Morgan as TranscreatorTing HuangChapter 8: Constellations and ideograms: Eugen Gomringer’s multilingual concrete poetryRaquel Abi-SamaraChapter 9: The Intermedial Recoding of Tradition in Augusto de Campos’ intraduções Simone Homem de MelloChapter 10: Concrete North America: Some Questions of ReceptionOdile CisnerosChapter 11: Mapping the International Concrete Poetry NetworkJohn CorbettChapter 12: Metaphor and Material in Concrete PoetryChris McCabe