Bilingualism of Nika Skandiaka’s original poetry and poetic translations

The article focuses on of Nika Skandiaka’s bilingualism as detected
in her original poetry. One of the traits of Skandiaka’s individual style is fusion
of strategies: those of a bilingual poet and of a poetic translator. There are
some differences between these strategies, for a translator has to do not only
with two languages, but also with crucial differences between them, which become
especially noticeable in the course of translation. In some her original poems
Skandiaka detects some differences of that kind, referring to different levels
of the language, when she supplies an English phrase (or separate words) with
several versions of «translation». Potential resources of Russian are activated as
typical for language of poetic translations. Poetic translator is, for one thing,
a poet, and for the other thing – a linguist, an investigator of both languages
(that of the origin and that of the translation). This trend is fully realized
in Skandiaka’s poetic translations.