Antioch LitCit #26 Dan Bellm

Host Julie Sugar speaks with translator and poet Dan Bellm about his translation of Balam Rodrigo's Central American Book of the Dead, forthcoming from FlowerSong Press this summer 2022. Bellm discusses teaching the Art of Translation course at Antioch, his work as an interpreter, and experiences as a poet and translator. Bellm reads his translation of "The Patron Saints" from Balam Rodrigo's Central American Book of the Dead, as well as his poems "She Waits" from Deep Well and the title sonnet from Practice.   Episode produced and mastered by Michaela Emerson and Samantha Rahmani.