Ursula K. Le Guin : Late in the Day
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Importance of Translating Poetry
I was in a bad time, and I kind of feel like some of the Eleges got me out of it anyway. And I don't read German, I don't know German. So, real K and Greta, I have to get with facing translations, and then just work my way back and forth... But by the time you've done that, you know the poem. You've kind of made your own version of it in English. That's why I love translating it from languages I do know. Even from languages I don't like Lao too. Yeah. Well, can you talk about some of the poets that you love as an adult? Who are some of
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