I "the meadow/' proceedingin "the air" and "thesea," beforereturning to "thecity,"and endingat "home" wheretheexplorer needs tolingerto reflect upon the knowledge gained throughout herjourney. The poems lead the reader to question the ignorance,knowledge, cruelty,and spirituality of human beings throughthe explorer'sjourney.EceTemelkuran's exquisite sense ofnatureand humanity is rendered through Deniz Perin'sprecisetranslation, whichskillfully conveysthetone oftheoriginal Turkish and makesthe book a meaningful giftto readersof theEnglish-speaking world. FatmaTarlaci University ofTexas,Austin C. K. Williams.Wait. New York.Farrar, Straus& Giroux.2010. 125 pages. $25. ISBN 978-0-374-28591-3 Wait, C. K. Williams'snewestcollection of poetry,delivers trademark poems - namely,poems thatarecast in the signaturestyle of Williams. Those who are already fans will not be disappointed and will find severalnew poems thatare as good as anyWilliamshas written to date, especiallythefinalpoem ofthevolume, "Jewon Bridge,"whichrefers to Paul Celan, and whichby virtue ofitscontent is inherently moving. The poem "Marina," which focuses onMarinaTsvetaeva, ispossiblytheother poeminthisvolumethat willclaima placeinanyfinalselected poems of Williams.The poem proceedsbyquotingbrief passages from Tsvetaeva'sArt in theLightofConscience while observingthefateof a winged insectdraggingitselfacross a tableand recalling eventsin Tsvetaeva 's life.Withpoems like these, Waitshowsno signsofdeclineinthe author'sabilities. Book of the Edge poems bvEce Temelkuran Translated with an Introduction byDeniz Perin Still, there are a few misgivings about some of thepoems' featuresthatadmittedly could be made about otherpoetryby Williams as well. First, the poet persistently uses imagerythatseems consciously gauged to deflate the "poetic" with the "antipoetic," but which frequently feelsgratuitousand ultimately theatrical.For example, in one stretch ofthebook in almostas manypoems as images,we encounterColeridge begging a ship's captainforan enema,a dead child,rottingplums comparedto "dog shit," a dog lickinghis "balls,"a blackbird hitbya car,a frog'sorgansliquefied by an insectbitethensucked out,a fishhead lyingon a sidewalk,flower "fucking," and "shitin a hat." 741WorldLiterature Today WÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊË Second,Williamsis an obviouslyintelligent andwell-read poet, and his learning findsits proper placeinhispoems,sometimes centrally asinthe poem"Marina," mentioned above.Thatsaid,attimes the musty smelloftheacademy canbe detected and be a little off-putting. Whenone poemencounters cows, thespeakermust(ofcourse)think ofIo;whenanother poemdescribes an encounter betweena man and womanon themetro, thespeaker must(ofcourse)recall Gombrowicz foran idea as simpleas physical assertion. Thereare multiple other examples oftimes whenthisreader wishestheauthor wouldputaside hisprofessor's cap. Third, there are too many stretches, even whole poems, in whichthepoet managesto barely includeconcreteimagery.For example, consider theselinesfrom "AllButAlways": "andifyouwere unable to give / an unqualified response to thesequestions, / but were forcedto admitthatyou / couldn't saywithcertainty whether / theactivities of thethingwere yourdoing/ ortheresult ofsome other agency." Suchlongstrings of abstractions seem less like poetry and moreliketherushedhurtle of abstract cogitation bysomeone consuming toomuchespresso. FredDings University ofSouthCarolina Miscellaneous Beyond Words:Translatingthe World. Susan Ouriou, ed. Banff, Alberta. BanffCentre Press. 2010. 175 pages. Can$21.95. isbn 978-1-894773-38-6 BeyondWords:Translating theWorld is a collection oftwenty-one short, mostlyinformal essays,thoughts on translation bya kaleidoscope of translators who have participated at varioustimesin theBanff literary Translation Centre's Summer ResidenceProgram. It is stimulating to confront in a shortspace how twenty-one translators with different approachesand attitudes facetwenty-one different problems oftranslation in as manydifferent ways.How does translating make us think aboutlanguage? Whatcan translators do, caughtin thegaps between twolanguages? How does each individualtextdetermine its translation? Whatabouttranslating from a major language into anindigenouslanguage?Whatis involved intranslating from a minor national language into a major one?What ifa translator isalsoa writer? Howdoes one carryacrossstylistic and linguistic norms from onelanguageto another - eveninthecaseofclosely related languages? How canpoetry be translated? Is translation political?Shoulditbe subjective? Is the translator translating him-or herself?Whataboutliterary imports? ■Hli^^H^H^^HHIII^^^MH^^HHH^^MI^^HHIJ^H...