{"id":512,"date":"2022-04-16T22:53:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T21:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=512"},"modified":"2022-04-16T22:56:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T21:56:25","slug":"if-you-knocked-on-my-door-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/16\/if-you-knocked-on-my-door-now\/","title":{"rendered":"If you knocked on my door now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From time to time, I (mis)translate poems from languages which I don’t speak, or at least, which I don’t speak well. I don’t claim that there’s any great artistic merit in this, but I enjoy doing it and there is some degree of effort, I promise. Anyhow, here’s the latest one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrizia Cavalli<\/a> is an Italian poet whose selected poems translates approximately as My Poems Won’t Change the World. <\/em>I suspect neither will this (mis)translation. Nevertheless, her modesty is less appropriate than mine. Her poems are excellent and should be read by everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From time to time, I (mis)translate poems from languages which I don’t speak, or at least, which I don’t speak well. I don’t claim that there’s any great artistic merit in this, but I enjoy doing it and there is some degree of effort, I promise. Anyhow, here’s the latest one. Patrizia Cavalli is an … <\/p>\n

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