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“... primacy and authority, to which to respond as to an original quite simply doesn’t seem wrong. Clare Cavanagh, the translator of half the poetry and two of the prose books, is obviously a huge factor in the reception of Polish writing in English – she is also the translator of Wyslawa Szymborska – while Renata Gorczynski, who, with help from ...”

“... English translations aren’t: the Cavafy of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, the Szymborska of Clare Cavanagh. But no single Vallejo poem in English approaches the standing of two free versions of his sonnet ‘Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca’ (a title no one understands and which, like so much in Vallejo, has been left irreducible and ...”