Who is a translator?
What does it mean to be a translator?
Is she a musician interpreting a score?
Is he a conductor leading an orchestra?
Or a child building a Lego set?
What is the act of translation?
Is it making a patchwork quilt, bit by bit?
A monster?
A polygamous marriage?
Somersaulting through a curious, bewildering, often humorous set of metaphors, award-winning translator Daisy Rockwell navigates her quest to seek the perfect metaphor for the art of translation.
Mixed Metaphors is served as a series of puzzling questions with no easy answers. Yet, nestled in these pages is a profound philosophy of translation crafted by a celebrated translator and writer.
Featuring an assemblage of creative non-fiction, poems, journal entries, alongside original, previously unpublished illustrations by Rockwell, this book is a rare collectible for lovers of literature in translation.
About the Author
Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer, and translator of Hindi and Urdu literature living in Vermont. She is a recipient of the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award, and her translations have been honoured with the International Booker Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, the MLA s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work, and the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation. She recently published her novel Alice Sees Ghosts, and her memoir Our Friend, Art is forthcoming in early 2027.
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