1403: Echo by Pura López-Colomé, translated by Forrest Gander

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

Today’s poem is Echo by Pura López-Colomé, translated by Forrest Gander.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “I also think that all literature is translation, in a sense. We are taking what is in our minds and translating that into language—and that’s true in any language. I think there is always a gap between what we want to express and what we can articulate with words. Language can only say so much.”


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Today’s poem is Echo by Pura López-Colomé, translated by Forrest Gander.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “I also think that all literature is translation, in a sense. We are taking what is in our minds and translating that into language—and that’s true in any language. I think there is always a gap between what we want to express and what we can articulate with words. Language can only say so much.”


Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

2025-11-25 6 min
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