Denise Newman is a translator and poet who has published three collections of poetry. She has translated two books by Denmark’s greatest modernist author, Inger Christensen. Her translation of Naja Marie Aidt’s short-fiction collection, Baboon, won the 2015 PEN Translation Prize (for another story by Aidt, see WLT, Sept. 2015, 26–29).
In the following essay, the authors look at poets and visual artists who use language in ways that blur the line between disciplines, with a particular emphasis on the environment.
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