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Patrick Barron

Contributor

Patrick Barron

Patrick Barron is Associate Professor of English at The University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has published a number of books of translations from Italian to English, including The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto, Haiku for a Season by Andrea Zanzotto, and Italian Environmental Literature: An Anthology....

He recently finished translating Gianni Celati’s Verso la foce, a portion of which appears in Italica. He has also published numerous scholarly articles, reviews, and poems, and most recently, the edited collection of essays Terrain Vague: Interstices at the Edge of the Pale.

Eternal Returns & Departures: Translating Gëzim Hajdari

By Patrick Barron

Image: The Adriatic Sea with the coast of Albania. Photograph by Kroll Markus. Wikimedia Commons.Patrick Barron’s translation of Gëzim Hajdari’s “I am leaving you Europe”…

I am leaving you Europe

By Gëzim Hajdari

Your ruins no longer enchant me.

Translated from Italian by Patrick Barron

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Patrick Barron

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Eternal Returns & Departures: Translating Gëzim Hajdari

I am leaving you Europe