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INTERVIEW WITH THE POET.(Poem)

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| June 01, 2001 | Lewis, Gwyneth | COPYRIGHT 2001 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
   I started to translate in seventy-three 
   in the school yard. For a bit of fun 
   to begin with--the occasional "fuck" 
   for the bite of another language's smoke 
   in the back of my throat, its bitter chemicals. 
   Soon I was hooked on whole sentences 
   behind the shed, and lessons in Welsh 
   seemed very boring. I started on print, 
   Jeeves & Wooster, Dick Francis, James Bond, 
   inside Welsh covers. That worked for a while 
   until Mam discovered Jean Plaidy inside 
   a Welsh concordance one Sunday night. 
   There were ructions: a language, she screamed, 
   should be for a lifetime. It was too late for me 
   already. Very soon, I moved on 
   to French, snorted Simenon 
   and Flaubert. Had to read much more 
   for any effect now. One night I OD'd 
   after reading far too much of Proust. 
   I came to, but it scared me. For a while 
   I went back, Welsh only, but it was bland 
   and my taste was changing. Before long 
   I was back on translating, found ...

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