Translator's Note

From: Poetry | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Harsent, David | Copyright information

In making my versions of poems by Yannis Ritsos, I have brought significant changes to his work. There is, of course, nothing new about the business of making "a version" rather than offering what is sometimes called a strict translation; in fact, I suspect that this is the approach to translation now most often taken. One way of defining this method is to speak not of "translation," but of "re-imagining." It is, in short, a creative act in support of an earlier creative act.

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