Jonathan Cohen
Poet, translator, essayist, and scholar of inter-American literature who edited and recovered William Carlos Williams's translations and focuses on Latin American poetry and translation studies.
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Jan 30, 2026 • 47min
Luis Rechani Agrait, "My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts" (Swan Isle Press, 2025)
Jonathan Cohen, poet, translator, and scholar of inter‑American literature who edited William Carlos Williams’s translations, introduces Williams’s unpublished English rendering of Luis Rechani Agrait’s political satire. The conversation traces the 1941 meeting in Puerto Rico, the archival discovery of Williams’s typescript, the missing third act mystery, and how translation shaped Williams’s bilingual poetics and cultural identity.
