Iāve been living with these poems for a few years: reading, translating, editing. The editing is difficult because you know itās the prelude to letting go.
"I soon realized that in order to fully engage with her work, reading would not be enough. I needed another way to go deeper into her work. I decided to translate her poetry as a way to live with her poems and ideas. That is: translation as reading, translation as re-reading, translation as inquiry, translation as interpretation, and translation as conversation."
-Laura Cesarco Eglin, on her award-winning translation of Hilda Hilstās OF DEATH. MINIMAL ODES (ācoā¢imā¢pressā), over at The Millions










