Courtesy of the Poetry Foundation I just discovered a recording of Caroline Bergvall reading Via, a poem composed entirely of English translations of the first line of Dantes Divine Comedy.
It might sound like a thin idea, but its mesmerising to listen to. Whats more, even if you know that translation is a complex process that makes meanings rather than just safely transporting them from one language to another, the repetition and the variations together really bring it home in a way that just....
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