El curioso color del colorado
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
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| Rosa 'Darcey Bussell' 27 August 2025 |
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| George McWhirter |
My friend George McWhirter, the Belfast born poet and novelist who happens to be the first Vancouver Poet Laureate (March 8 2007), is an expert translator from Spanish to English. He translates the poems of Mexican poet and novelist (and environmentalist) Homero Aridjis.
We have discussed with smiles the impossibility of translating into English a line from the Jorge Luís poem La lluvia (The Rain):
Le reveló una flor llamada rosa
Y el curioso color del colorado.
