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My Homeland Is My Language: Ovid Void And Translations of Exile
Ovid Void presents a limit case for what we mean by translation. The World Poetry chapbook contains twenty of Eugene Ostashevsky's versions based on new Russian versions of Ovid's poems of exile by Ostashevsky's Russian contemporary Maria Stepanova, who based hers on the Soviet Academy of Sciences translations of the Latin originals.
Review by Dan Alter · Review published Jun 3, 2026