{"id":3998,"date":"2018-03-19T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2018-03-08T22:25:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:25:49","slug":"interview-with-chloe-garcia-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3998","title":{"rendered":"24PearlStreet Interview with Chloe Garcia Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chloe<\/a>The blog of 24PearlStreet<\/a> has published an interview with poet and translator Chloe Garcia-Roberts about the creativity of translation and writing outside genres. Here’s how it begins:<\/p>\n

MAIREAD HADLEY: In what ways is translation a creative process? Would you describe it as such?<\/b><\/p>\n

CHLOE GARCIA-ROBERTS: It is completely a creative process. In the same way that drawing from life is a creative process. My subject is there, independent and complete, but my job is to recreate<\/i> that subject in a different language. To so effectively draws on everything that I have to the same depths as any of my own writing, albeit in a completely different way.<\/p>\n

For me, translation is a complementary creative process to creative writing. I was discussing it with a colleague just this week and articulated the relationship between the two as a form of crop rotation. If I am in poetry writing mode all the time, I get depleted, and if I am in translation mode all the time, I also get depleted. But if I alternate the two in my life, they feed each other, they make the yields stronger for either effort, and they enrich me more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click the image for the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The blog of 24PearlStreet has published an interview with poet and translator Chloe Garcia-Roberts about the creativity of translation and writing outside genres. Here’s how it begins: MAIREAD HADLEY: In what ways is translation a creative process? 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