"Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations" white liberals lmao (en.wikipedia.org)

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check out these categories:

American translators

Iranologists

Poets from Tennessee

Sufi poets

University of California, Berkeley alumni

this mf is a bit on Trillbilly's podcast lol

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[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

I think poetry in particular is heavily dependent on the specifics of the language being used, so it really is untranslatable more or less. Like puns but even more extreme. Whatever this guy is doing is just stupid and not even an attempt at doing it right tho lol.