Translating Soffiati Via has been a fully immersive experience. I do believe as translators we are capable of translating nearly anything if asked, but when we choose something to translate ourselves, we somehow also choose to live it ourselves. I began translating the work of vito m. bonito one poem at a time during the early morning hours in the winter of 2016. I was teaching high school at the time and would wake up and translate before the sun had come up, in the dark, under the lamplight. That early morning hour and the cool, cold darkness allowed me to inhabit the language of Soffiati via more fully, to wear it as a cloak of my own.
