Some of my colleagues are surprised by how little personal interaction I've had with "my" authors, but I don't translate to go fishing for friends. Part of me suspects that they wouldn't like me, or that I wouldn't like them, which would inevitably get in the way of the mission. None of the theory built around translation matters to me anyway: much of the process, I find, is intuitive.
Andre Naffis-SahelyWhen it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.
Andre Naffis-SahelyTo be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal in their own peculiar way - they have no choice: politics is one of the many fragments we thread into the tapestry of the poem.
Andre Naffis-SahelyPoetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.
Andre Naffis-Sahely