Who is a translator? What does it mean to be a translator? Is she a musician interpreting a score? Is he a conductor leading an orchestra? Or a child building a Lego set? What is the act of translation? Is it making a patchwork quilt, bit by bit? A monster? A polygamous marriage? Somersaulting through a curious, bewildering, often humorous set of metaphors, award-winning translator Daisy Rockwell navigates her quest to seek the perfect metaphor for the art of translation. Mixed Metaphors is served as a series of puzzling questions with no easy answers. Yet, nestled in these pages is a profound philosophy of translation crafted by a celebrated translator and writer. Featuring an assemblage of creative non-fiction, poems, journal entries, alongside original, previously unpublished illustrations by Rockwell, this book is a rare collectible for lovers of literature in translation.