[New-Poetry] Eshleman on the travails of translating Vallejo

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There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem  
which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in  
the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling  
names? I want nothing better than a good word. The  
name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself  
to me. 
--Henry  David Thoreau. 1853.  “A Yankee in  Canada.” 
in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau.1906. 
Houghton Mifflin.  v.5,  p.20.




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