...Leevi Lehto Abstract This text is Leevi Lehto's introduction to his Finnish translation of Charles Bernstein's work, both poetry and poetics. Lehto argues that Bernstein's poems are interventions into various constellations, or power relations, in the field of poetry, always reacting to something...

... or are not translatable. I may not be the right person to say this, having been responsible for a volume of translations of the work of Charles Bernstein into Finnish, but then again, he can already be said to be part of the Finnish poetry scene—not as imported poetic “content” but as an active actor. Three...

...: Les échanges franco-américains en poésie depuis 1968 (2021). Leevi Lehto (1951–2019) was an influential and prolific Finnish poet, translator (of, among others, Joyce's Ulysses , Ashbery, Bernstein), and publisher (ntamo 2007–17). Marjorie Perloff is the author of many books on twentieth...

... Södergran (1892–1923), a Swedish-language­ 232 boundary 2 / May 2017 Finnish modernist responsible for publishing the first avant-garde­ mani- festo in Scandinavia. Arnold Rampersad’s and Meta DuEwa Jones’s “Afri- can American Poetry” might dismiss the nineteenth century as largely a period...

... diminish, / Although you should begin in Dutch, / And end (like me) in Finnish Thomas Hood, ‘‘Sir John Bowring in The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, ed. Walter Jerrold (London: Henry Frowde, 1906), 66. Tong / The Aesthetic of Imperial Ruins 141 are of special...

.... Essays and Poems from Two Millennia) [Finnish], trans. Leevi Lehto (Helsinki: Nihil Interit and Kirja kerrallaan, 2006) and De svåra dikterna anfaller, eller Högtspel i tropi-kerna:­ Dikter, essäer, samtal i urval, översättning & montage (The Attack of the Difficult Poems: A Tropics of High Stakes...