News at Eleven: Paul Muldoon: I do think that one

of the glories of our era has been the extent to which literature in translation has been so available to us. And how much we've come to recognize, indeed, how much literature in translation—the Old and New Testaments, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Joyce— has meant to us all along. I love the idea that the Japanese tradition, say, has enlivened the English. I love the fact that Inuit poetry may resonate with me as much as Irish.

from The New Yorker: Besieged: A Live Chat with Paul Muldoon

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