I had Merrill's translation of "Palme" over my desk for about ten years. It was there as a reminder that the impossible can be done. His fascination with the poem began with his seeing a Rilke translation of it and then not being able to locate it; this is reported in "Lost in Translation," and the epigraph is from Rilke's version.
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