Ron Padgett
Ron Padgett’s “Pink Dust” proves that W.H. Auden was wrong — the nothing of poetry contains everything required to make a good (even heroic) life happen.
Whenever there is a choice to be made between meaning and melody, the translator tends to opt for the latter.
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