On Carrying a Poem Across

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Replace this with a translation and the short note that belongs beside it.

A useful shape for these pieces, if you want one:

1. The poem in translation.
2. The original, or a transliteration of it.
3. A short note on what refused to cross over.

That third part is usually the most interesting thing on the page — it is the only place the reader learns what the translation cost.

Every translation is an argument about what the poem was for.