Allusion & Correspondence: On Translating Jorge Teillier

Allusion & Correspondence: On Translating Jorge Teillier

This essay serves as a translator’s note for four poems from Jorge Teillier translated by Mathew Weitman and published by Poetry Northwest. Nostalgias Born in 1935 in the rainy southern city of Lautaro, Chile, Jorge Teillier was the author of fourteen collections of poetry in a career spanning forty years. While a brief internet search might assert that Jorge Teillier is one of the most “influential and important Chilean poets of his day,” it is…