Translations

“I, Little Asylum has a lovely lightness to it. Memory comes as something both tactile and elusive, with edges of sharpness and pain, rendered in a prose style exquisite and delicate. It is as though the experience of being brought up in strange and interesting circumstance is studied and recollected as though it were in water, refracted, floating freely, infinitely mysterious.”
—Colm Tóibín

“The Nothing Bird is an exemplar of the art of translation at its best. E. C. Belli has translated the exquisitely lyric, surrealist poems of the late Pierre Peuchmaurd into equally exquisite poems in English. These translations sing. From first page to last, I savored reading this volume, which includes a selection of poems written over three decades of Peuchmaurd’s career. With generosity of mind and fine erudition, E. C. Belli has placed her impressive gifts as a linguist and poet in the service of translating a poet whose work feels necessary for our souls.“
 — Cynthia Hogue

“E.C. Belli’s transfixing translations of Pierre Peuchmaurd make it possible not just to read of the night’s elbows ‘on the table of the day’ but to be at that table, to experience the Peuchmaurdian madness of night’s bald child hatching a bald chicken. These are gorgeous, glorious translations of a poet who knows how ‘everything roars, and everything falls silent.’”
— Idra Novey

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Individual translations

Translated work has appeared with Asymptote, Circumference, Gulf Coast, Washington Square, Guernica, FIELD, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cerise Press, and Absinthe: New European Writing, among others.

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Commercial Nonfiction/Other

The Power of Indignation: The Autobiography of the Man Who Inspired the Arab Spring by Stéphane Hessel, Skyhorse Publishing

In Geronimo’s Footsteps: A Journey Beyond Legend by Corine Sombrun and Harlyn Geronimo, Arcade Publishing

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Reflections on translations

“Surreal & Elemental: An Interview with E.C. Belli” – Circumference