Question

An essay by this author opens with the remark, “Learning to speak is learning to translate.” Over four days in a Paris basement in 1969, this author worked with Jacques Roubaud, Edoardo Sanguineti, and Charles Tomlinson (15[1])to compose a quadrilingual set of renga. In a translation, this author used the less literal words “illuminates” and “ascends” (15[1])to better capture the spiritual meaning of a line (15[1])about sunlight shining (15[1])onto green moss. (15[5]-5[1])This author (15[1])wrote the (10[1])afterword to his friend’s study of (*) nineteen different (10[1])translations (10[3])of the poem “Deer Park” by Wang Wei. (10[1]-5[1])That (10[1])friend, Eliot Weinberger, (10[3])translated the first and last (10[1])lines of a poem by this author as, “a course (10[1])of a (-5[1])river (10[1])that turns, moves on, (10[1])doubles back, and (10[1])comes full circle,” and (10[2]0[1])“a crystal (10[1])willow, a poplar of water.” For 10 points, name this Mexican poet of “Sunstone.” ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Octavio Paz [or Octavio Paz Lozano] (The lead-in is from “Translation: Literature and Literality.”)
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