Further Reading & Sources:
theparisreview.org/blog/2018/09/17/feminize-your-canon-rosario-castellanos/">Rosario Castellanos's other works? Kinsey Report - De Gruyter Brill kinsey report rosario castellanos english
What Castellanos understood, perhaps better than Kinsey himself, was that data is not destiny. A report can tell you what people are doing, but it takes a poet to explain how it feels . Further Reading & Sources: theparisreview
In the final lines of the English translation, Castellanos looks away from the report and toward the sleeping man. She writes: "He doesn't know that she doesn't sleep. / He doesn't know that she knows. / And the night goes on, longer than any statistic." In the final lines of the English translation,
Men have a different rhythm, another goal. They are the driver, the train, the distance, the wind. They stop the watch and start it."
For non-Spanish speakers, reading this poem in translation raises the question of loss. Does the irony survive? In the case of Magda Bogin’s translation, remarkably, yes. The English version of "The Kinsey Report" has found a second life in feminist anthologies and creative writing workshops because Castellanos’ target is universal.