Brilliant example sentence. Dictionaries should give more like this, please: 「彼は手足もろとも縛られ車のトランクに押し込まれた。」 "He was bound hand and foot and crammed into the trunk of the car."
James Garza
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Ph.D. // Lit translator (JP-EN) // 文芸翻訳者 // 翻訳研究者 // Poetry Magazine // Asymptote // Modern Poetry in Translation // Stephen Spender Prize winner // he/him
I'm so excited that my essay "Passionate Women, Vengeful Spirits: Female Ghosts and the Japanese Gothic Mode" has been published in Manusya: Journal of Humanities! Thank you to Kasia Ancuta for editing this special issue👻 It's open source and free to read here: brill.com/view/journal...
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midway through final edits on the book
a springfieldian werewolf in shelbyville@springfieldians.bsky.social · 2mo ago
My latest Hiyori Kojima translation has just gone live over at Asymptote. Includes a recital by the poet. Link in reply! 👇
I’m at the bread and circuses. I’m at the damnatio memoriae. I’m at the combination bread and circuses damnatio memoriae
I was out for a walk when I came across these orange fruiting bodies -- not that they're hard to miss. On a gray day, they seem almost neon. They look like cinnabar polypore, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I like the name. "Cinnabar." May your walks, too, be enlivened by fungus.
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
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Believe in your work. Stop ending papers with “More research is needed” and start concluding with “No more research on this topic is needed.”
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This painstakingly detailed account of a nightmare experience working with Google feels worth honoring with a read. So unprofessional and disrespectful of Google. news.artnet.com/art-world/ju...
Want a Masterclass in How Not to Work With Artists? Ask Google | Artnet News
Renown artist Judy Chicago shares her misadventures with an ambitious public art commission for the tech giant.
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投稿募集中 日本語でも可能です！
the other side of hope || lit mag@othersidelitmag.bsky.social · 8mo agoSubmissions are now open for our “other tongue, mother tongue” issue. We’re looking for poetry by migrants worldwide in any language but English. We pay contributors. Guidelines: othersideofhope.com/submissions-...
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
City of Minneapolis@minneapolismn.gov · 9mo agoVehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost. Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
Shout out to the airport employee who pushed both up and down on the elevator and announced, "Screenshot!"
billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible
Been on a social media break. But happy to report that my work on Kojima Hiyori's collection "Water's Edge" has been shortlisted for the Poetry in Translation Prize, launched this year by Giramondo Publishing, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions. Extracts up at granta.com/the-poetry-i...
The Poetry in Translation Prize | 2025 | Granta
The Poetry in Translation Prize, founded by Fitzcarraldo Editions, New Directions and Giramondo, is a...
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reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
Joanne Hammond@joannehammond.bsky.social · 11mo agoholy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
now i'm seeing authors getting pumped about AI translations - and cheap AI-assisted translations (first pass is AI, then refined by translator) i feel like these people are not valuing their own writing, or the complex work translators do. it's not really a word-for-word thing.
