Soffiati via/Blown Away

Translating Soffiati Via has been a fully immersive experience. I do believe as translators we are capable of translating nearly anything if asked, but when we choose something to translate ourselves, we somehow also choose to live it ourselves. I began translating the work of vito m. bonito one poem at a time during the early morning hours in the winter of 2016. I was teaching high school at the time and would wake up and translate before the sun had come up, in the dark, under the lamplig...