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From: Richard Falken <richardfalken@richard-falken.com>
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Subject: Re: REVIEW: Pearl by Simon Armitage
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I am not much of a fan of language adaptations for poems. They are very hard to
do well and usually end up trashing the original. I suppose it is less of a
problem if you are translating from old english to new English (instead of, for
example, English to Spanish, which works very bad).

Also, 30 bucks for a 100 page book is a bit harsh of a price. 

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