Well, this is tantalizing. I found a Google Books version of correspondence between Richard Wilbur and the editor who commissioned his translation of this poem. Some of the drafts and the logic behind various decisions are presented and discussed by the two, in almost a line-by-line fashion. Not all of the pages are accessible, but those that are fascinate me.
[Edited to remove the URL I provided, since Google Books seems to reduce the number of pages that one can see each time you visit the same resource, and I think that the very long URL must have some coded info in it that will count how many times it's been accessed in that way. You'll have better results if you just search for "correspondence between paul auster and richard wilbur," which is a phrase from the first line of the article. This article has been republished in other translation-related monographs several times, so you may be able to find a fuller presentation of the text in another version.]
And now I've got to focus on my weekend obligations.
Last edited by Julie Steiner; 08-16-2019 at 11:37 AM.
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