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Only Poems Can Translate Poems: On the Impossibility and Necessity of Translation 

Books discussed in this essay:
it. Inger Christensen. (Trans. Susanna Nied. New Directions. $17.95. 304 pp.
Post-Colonial Translation: Theory and Practice. Susan Bassnett and Harish Trivedi, editors. Routledge. $47.95. 224 pp.
The Poethical Wager. Joan Retallack. University of California Press. $24.95. 291 pp.
Night is a Sharkskin Drum. Haunani-Kay Trask. University of Hawai’i Press. $27.00. 96 pp.
Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre. Lois-Ann Yamanaka. Bamboo Ridge Press. $16.00. 148 pp.

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