Historical Fidelity: Margaret Randall on Translating Cuban Poetry
“We must be vigilant, because the history we are given is sometimes very different from the history that happened.”
Harris Feinsod is the author of The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures (Oxford University Press, 2017), the co-translator of Oliverio Girondo’s Decals: Complete Early Poems (Open Letter, 2018), and the director of Open Door Archive. His recent essays appear in American Literary History, Centro, The Iowa Review, Modernism/modernity, and n+1. He is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University.
“We must be vigilant, because the history we are given is sometimes very different from the history that happened.”