Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@noonessleep George Steiner spoke of "the honest treason of the comparatist, the translator; a persistent infidelity to any one tradition, culture or community of recognition." Ultimately, the greater assimilative space of a planetary prophetology? Hillman: "Words, like angels, are powers."
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 19 Jul 2021
@thebafflermag Sublime, from @chebhocine on Said, echoing the trans-cultural, cross-fertilizing hermeneutics of the contemporary poet-translator, Clayton Eshleman: “the antiphonal traffic of translation, for me, opens up a greater assimilative space than monolingual reading.”
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