"The contemporary American poet Ron Padgett, who has given us wonderful translations of Blaise Cendrars and Guillaume Apollinaire, once said that his motive in translating was feeling "I want to tell my friends about this!" when he encountered a new poet in a language his friends did not read."
Not that I'd know anything about that...
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Translating Czech and b̶i̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ running around the Central Coast since 2007
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Big up to King UBU!
- Jesse
that would leave me with one hell of a job...
Denkend aan Holland
zie ik brede rivieren
Traag door oneindig
laagland gaan.
- Marsman
*yes, that's this actual name*
Well met fair traveller. An old friend passes blindly through your corner of our cyber digital existence. She pauses to ask whether he remembers long passed days of snow and becherovka and enquires as to how the former gentleman of masaryk now spends his days? She has returned to the land of her majesty and tea fuelled ignorance and continues in her attempts to blight the establishment. But who is this he wonders, and what exactly is she trying to say???
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