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Gorman herself chose the Dutch translator. But society gets to make this decision, and not the poet? Also, on a practical level, that critic would have preferred the translator to be “a spoken-word artist, young, female and unapologetically Black”, who is also fluent in Dutch and English – which has to be a pretty small population to draw from.
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