The Transformation Review

06/18/2026

06/18/2026

A brilliant conversation with H. L. Hix at Fresh Chapel about _As Wind Rounds Sandstone, As Ice Sections Schist_, forthcoming from our imprint, Salon des Refusés, in October.

https://freshchapel.substack.com/p/poetry-peacemakers-and-mystics

https://www.salon-des-refuses.com/catalog/p/hix

06/16/2026

A stimulating discussion: Eugene Ostashevsky on translingualism, translation & poetic practice:
and Dan Alter's review of Ostashevsky's & Stepanova's Ovid Void from World Poetry Books: https://www.thetransformationreview.com/reviews/ostashevsky-translates-ovid-ovid-void-1

https://youtu.be/w13vB-j8YLU

Featured Speaker: Eugene Ostashevsky is a poet and translator who ...

06/16/2026

06/15/2026

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06/10/2026

06/09/2026

"Ovid Void presents a limit case for what we mean by translation. The World Poetry chapbook contains twenty of Eugene Ostashevsky's versions based on new Russian versions of Ovid's poems of exile by Ostashevsky's Russian contemporary Maria Stepanova, who based hers on the Soviet Academy of Sciences translations of the Latin originals." Dan Alter's review of Ovid Void from World Poetry Books translation by Eugene Ostashevsky of Maria Stepanova

Ovid Void presents a limit case for what we mean by translation. The World Poetry chapbook contains twenty of Eugene Ostashevsky's versions based on new Russian versions of Ovid's poems of exile by Ostashevsky's Russian contemporary Maria Stepanova, who based hers on the Soviet Academy of Sciences t...

06/03/2026

Dan Alter's fascinating review of a fascinating book Ovid Void a translation by Eugene Ostashevsky of work by Maria Stepanova, published in 2025 by World Poetry Books. Read it here....

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