Speaking the way you listen. Until the late 1940s, the U.S. perception of Mexico was through the eyes of English-speaking writers such as Huxley, Greene and Hughes. Then Mexican writers themselves began to be published in translation. Inventing a new music. Weinberger pointed out that every reading, especially of poetry, is actually a translation into one's own experience.
Poetry needs that movement to stay alive.
In the modern approach, poetry translations are written to be read as modern literature. An example is Pound's translation of Sappho without the traditional Greek pentameter. A bad translation, said Weinberger, is one that may be semantically accurate but does not reflect a thorough knowledge of the target language literature. Weinberger himself is no stranger to this neglect. When his award-winning translation of Borge's works was reviewed, his name was not even mentioned.