I Bet People Will Join Us
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I Bet People Will Join Us
…believing in the naturalness of your mother tongue shows a lack of serious engagement with language and belies the entire premise of modern literature. This is why I believe that existing outside of one's mother tongue is not exceptional, but simply an extreme version of the normal state of things.
Yoko Tawada • Exophony
The question that matters here isn’t “Which translation is most accurate?” but “Taken together, do these translations make the poem more interesting?” And the answer to that is a resounding yes.