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This book is a delightfully satisfying read for anyone who has tiptoed this fragile terrain [of translation]. -- John M. Jackson Virginia Quarterly Review Caws shuns the literal translation of poetry and celebrates the ambiguity a writer can create through various translational acts. . . . This book is a delightfully satisfying read for anyone who has tiptoed this fragile terrain [of translation]. --John M. Jackson Virginia Quarterly Review Caws strikes the middle ground between the demands of two different audiences. She approaches a topic on which nearly everyone has an opinion in a manner that is scholarly if not theoretical, discussing a subject some would leave to the experts in a fashion that is accessible without being condescending. --Lucas Klein Rain Taxi The reader closes the book happy in the knowledge that this elegant, well-researched, and even poetic book is written with love and attention by a talented translator and translation critic. --Dinda L. Gorlee Symploke [Students of literature] will emerge from the study with the conviction that the act of translation is more subtle than they imagined. . . . In other words, Surprised in Translation is of interest to an audience much broader than translators alone. --Chelsea Ray South Central Review

[Students of literature] will emerge from the study with the conviction that the act of translation is more subtle than they imagined. . . . In other words, Surprised in Translation is of interest to an audience much broader than translators alone. -- Chelsea Ray South Central Review

The reader closes the book happy in the knowledge that this elegant, well-researched, and even poetic book is written with love and attention by a talented translator and translation critic. --Dinda L. Gorlee Symploke

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Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the author or editor of many books, including Surrealist Love Poems, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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