That was good advice at one time, no doubt.

OK, thanks Dave, will do. The REMOVE thing just comes up automatically. The reason I put it there originally is because I was told never to put real email address on the internet – I don’t suspect you at all!

Of course. Please do!

(By the way, if you want your avatar to show up in the comments, just supply the same email we used to set up your author account… and obviously leave out the “REMOVETHIS” text, which you don’t need here because I promise I don’t harvest commenters’ emails to sell to spammers.)

Yes, absolutely! (See my comment to Jean above.) And I’m excited to hear that you’re working on new translations. This is shaping up to be fun project.

Fair enough. A professional poet is I guess what I meant. [ETA: OK, I inserted the word “professional” in the post.] There’s no doubt Natalie’s a poet! Sometimes having too strong a voice of one’s own actually gets in the way of good translating, as with Stephen Mitchell or Robert Bly. Or look at how many genuinely great poets came out with pretty good translations of Rilke only to be blown out of the water by Edward Snow.