Tribute to Translation

Conversation with
Michael Favala Goldman

The Fall 2022 issue of Rattle features a Tribute to Translation, with 17 poems spanning two millennia, originally written in a wide variety of languages—from Spanish to Swahili. In the conversation section, we spoke to Danish translator Michael Favala Goldman about his award-winning work and the incredible life’s journey into it.

The open section featured a broad mix of 22 poems by fresh faces and reader-favorites.

	Translation
	Frank Báez	In the Bible No One Appears Smoking
	Basil of Caesarea	What St. Basil Said
	C.P. Cavafy	An Old Man
	Nianxi Chen	June Is Almost Done
	Tove Ditlevsen	Divorce 1
	Pietro Federico	Arizona
	Muyaka al-Ghassaniy	He Shuns Me
	Karmelo C. Iribarren	Six Poems
	Ting Li	A Little Flower
	Federico García Lorca	Ghazal 5: of the Dead Boy
	Francesco Petrarca	from The Banned Babylon Sonnets of Petrarch
	Alireza Roshan	Two Poems
	Endre Ruset	from Deretter
	Amira Antoun Salameh	My Body Is Mine
	Max Sessner	One Day
	Dag T. Straumsvåg	Resurgam in the Delta Pavonis System
	Georg Trakl	St. Peter’s Cemetery
	..
	Open Poetry
	Darius Atefat-Peckham	All Bodies
	Devon Balwit	Off to College Abecedarian
	Bruce Bennett	Like That
	Richelle Buccilli	Sparrow
	e.c. crossman	I Can’t
		I Can
	Cortney Esco	Bull’s Eye
	Tony Gloeggler	25 Years
	Chris Huntington	A Dream
		I Have Seen You in My Dreams
	Karan Kapoor	Ghazal for Dida
	David Kirby	The Fates
	Ron Koertge	Things and How They Work
	Lance Larsen	The Girl
		Widow Water
	Jessica Lee	What the Heart Does
	Katy Luxem	Ways to Break My Heart
	January O’Neil	What’s Love Got to Do With It
	Aaron Poochigian	Unromantic
	Cindy Veach	Some Things I Never Told Anyone
	Richard Westheimer	Prayer for the Unrung Bell
	Guinotte Wise	The Candy-Apple Red-Orange 1949 Ford …
	..
	Conversation
	Michael Favala Goldman
	..
	Cover Art
	Jenny Eickbush