“There was a point during the translation process I realized that once a work is translated from its original language, there is something that will always be missing within that poem because a word in Spanish does not have the exact same meaning in English.”
“I was not aware of the poet’s inspiration for writing his poem, and having limited background on the current situation in El Salvador at the time it was written, I was forced to re-evaluate the meaning behind his language. I had to read between the lines.”
