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Photo credit: Sarah Deragon Note: This is an edited transcription of an interview conducted over Zoom. The full interview, featuring more in-depth answers and back-and-forths, is available below. Gunawan reads the poem “Go Back Home” from 14:45–16:25. Tell us about your relationship to translation. My God, where do I start? I feel like . . .

Photo credit: “2015 Dron DJI Phantom 3 Advanced,” from Wikimedia Commons. I have become an expert in distinguishing the sounds of Israeli death blasts.  The roar of warplanes.  The relentless thump of shelling.  Each day in Gaza is a new battle to navigate the different cacophonies of Israel’s massacres. But it’s the . . .

Tell us about your relationship to writing.I started keeping a journal in my early twenties as a way of organizing my thoughts. Before that I didn’t write much and I never considered myself a very literary person. When I was 27, I took a poetry workshop at City College of San Francisco . . .