“Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must put myself to the same, old test: "can I do their texts justice?" I've translated twenty-one books, and except for three commissions, I "hand-picked" all my authors on the basis of whether my own peculiar idiosyncrasies would complement their own.” Has BeensBookHandsThreeJusticeMy OwnTestsBasesTwentiesPeculiarEmergingTwenty OneComplementIdiosyncrasies Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely
“To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal in their own peculiar way - they have no choice: politics is one of the many fragments we thread into the tapestry of the poem.” WayMeanPoliticalChoicesAnimalPoetPeculiarSaltThreadFragmentsTapestryPolitical Animals Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely
