"When I started to make translations I was just doing it intuitively, and my tendency was to stick to the original as much as possible. Then I gained more confidence in my own poetry and my own writing and I began to become less concerned about being strictly faithful to the original and more concerned with producing a good poem in English. What I have often found—especially in the translations that are done by scholars—is that they’re very faithful to the content of the original language, but in English they don’t really sound that good as poems."
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Poets from the United StatesEditors from the United StatesTranslators from the United StatesAuthors from the United StatesHispanic Americans
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On translating Spanish poetry into English in “Interview with Francisco Aragón: Latino Poetry From All Its Perspectives” in Sampsonia Way (2010 Sept 16)
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