“It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.” ArtistCan DoPoetProfessionI RealizedEpiphanyTranslatorsLinguists Author:Jan Peacock
“These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world where “writing infects the landscape” and there are “more letters than leaves” - The kind of match one hopes for where both the translator and the poet are in luck; new poems which don't leak and yet old poems in which the original passion shines.” WorldWritingKindPassionPowerfulSilencePoetLettersEternityOriginalsLuckShiningLandscapeMetaphysicalTranslationsLeaksTranslators Author:Jorie Graham
“It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.” PoetPoetry IsTranslateTranslators Author:Ron Padgett