Does anyone like any of the translations in the
Collected I believe we're all referring to? It's the
one that features Updike and Hollander and so on. Very
few good ones, to my way of thinking, with Robert
Fitzgerald leading the way in talent.
Sorry, Tim, if I mixed up my pronouns in that strange
post, but it was SIMPSON who was calling Borges "a foolish
romantic." I can't help agreeing with you, though, about
Simpson's own "verse" in the last twenty years or so--he's
become what HE calls a writer in "open form." Wish Dana
and Mike had come up with someone else last year at W. Chest.
So the Sense of the Board likes Borges, eh?
GOOD !
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