Perhaps poet Zviad Ratiani explains Maya Sarishvili\u2019s poetry best:\u00a0\u201cHer poems are like the due\u00f1o of Rilke. Somehow self sufficient, and\u00a0somehow something is always happening inside of them. Whenever I touch\u00a0them, whenever I read them over and over again, something else is\u00a0happening inside me each time. \u00a0Her poems are naked, containing so\u00a0much naked feeling and sense, but on the other hand, so much\u00a0intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n
When I started, my plan was to translate only five or\u00a0ten of her poems, but her poetry won me over quickly; I, along with my\u00a0co-translator Nene Giorgadze, a childhood friend of Maya\u2019s, are now\u00a0working towards translating her award-winning collection\u00a0Microscope<\/em>.\u00a0Being involved with such startling work has truly been a treat.<\/p>\n _______________<\/span><\/p>\n Read Maya Sarishvili\u2019s <\/em>[These diamond weeds are]<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>[Again by the windmills’ wings]<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Microscope<\/em><\/a>, and <\/em>Circle and Rectangle<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Perhaps poet Zviad Ratiani explains Maya Sarishvili\u2019s poetry best:\u00a0\u201cHer poems are like the due\u00f1o of Rilke. Somehow self sufficient, and\u00a0somehow something is always happening inside of them. Whenever I touch\u00a0them, whenever I read them over and over again, something else is\u00a0happening inside me each time. \u00a0Her poems are naked, containing so\u00a0much naked feeling and sense, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[36],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-DK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10356,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/10356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Timothy Kercher<\/a><\/h6>\n