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They say it is impossible to re-create a poem in another language, and perhaps it is. It is also irresistible.Translators may attempt the impossible because they want to share their enjoyment or because they need versions for teaching or because they like word games-translation is as much fun as DoubleCrostics. My own reason is the challenge of the irresistible; I am like the mountain climber who says, "Because it's there." And in fact, mountain climbing and poetic translation have some points in common. The translator and the climber may find smooth stretches on their rough paths, and they both struggle upward, but at the goal the similarity disappears, for the climber may succeed absolutely. There are no absolute successes in translation, which John Ciardi calls the art of failure. On the other hand, the translator will never find himself in the anticlimactic position of having climbed Mount Everest. He always has more worlds to attempt to conquer, and his old worlds to improve.

THE THIRD WORLD HAS ALWAYS BEEN PRESENT IN THE FIRST WORLD. HOWEVER, TODAY IN THE UNITED STATES WE SEE A REALIGNMENT OF THE THIRD WORLD IN THE FIRST WORLD: A LINGERING APARTHEID IS MORE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GROWING UNDERCLASS THAN ANY OTHER FACTOR. THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES HOW WE DIVIDE UP THE WORLD AND EXPLORES THE CONDITIONS IN U.S. INNER CITIES. IT SUGGESTS THAT OUR MORALITY HAS DISAPPEARED AND THAT OUR EXCESSIVE INDIVIDUALISM MAKES ALL OF US OUT FOR OURSELVES. IN THE END, HOWEVER, WE CANNOT LIVE BY OURSELVES.