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By Mira Rosenthal
On there being no such thing as a “correct” or “definitive” translation.
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By Daniel Felsenthal
Dario Bellezza scandalized Italy with unabashedly queer poetry about cruising and AIDS. Nearly thirty years after his death, a new translation brings his work into English.
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What we did to the earth, we did to our daughters
one after the other.
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