Scenes Left Out Of […]
Efraín Velasco and Mark Statman
This collaborative volume began as a translation and took on a life of its own:
“Scenes Left Out Of […] isn’t the book Velasco originally wrote. That book, Escenas Eliminadas […], in the process of translation, disappeared. That is, in translation, the translation lost. As Velasco and fellow poet Mark Statman began to find the poems in English, a new book of poems was created. Constructed. One which resembled the original and became so new and different, the first book no longer mattered. It had become irrelevant.”