When the author turned to Saenz's Homenaje, wondering if the poems would shed any insight into his son's experience of Absence Epilepsy, he had as little access to Spanish as to his son's experience and began homophonic translations as a way into the work, and into discovering what was happening to his son.
Tom Thompson is the author of "Live Feed," "The Pitch," and "Passenger" (forthcoming from Four Way Books). He lives in New York, with his wife, Miranda Field: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...