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Jimmy Riordan

LINES of FLIGHT: Jimmy Riordan’s translations

"In 2014, in the sorting and melting of lead type, each ingot became the physical representative, in scale and in weight, of the number of times a letter was used in the text; another form of translation, this one conveying a sort of inverse Oulippan challenge to the 'reader' of this new variant." — Julie Poitras Santos on Jimmy Riordan's work
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Julie Poitras Santos’ essay takes the act/ion of translation as its territory and looks at Jimmy Riordan’s translation of Francis Jammes “Le Roman de Lièvre” into English, as well as into various representations and reflections of the work in visual form.

Julie Poitras Santos September 29, 2015 Essays, Vol. 1, No. 2: October 2015
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