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 to compose a quadrilingual set of renga. In a translation, this author used the less literal words “illuminates” and “ascends” to better capture the spiritual meaning of a line about sunlight shining (15[1])onto green moss. (15[1])This author wrote the (10[1])afterword to his friend’s study of (*) nineteen different (10[1])translations (10[1])of the poem “Deer Park” by Wang Wei. That friend, Eliot Weinberger, translated the first and last lines of a poem by this author as, “a course of a (-5[1])river (10[1])that turns, moves on, doubles back, and (10[1])comes full circle,” and (10[2]0[1])“a crystal willow, a poplar of water.” For 10 points, name this Mexican poet of “Sunstone.” ■END■

ANSWER: Octavio Paz [or Octavio Paz Lozano] (The lead-in is from “Translation: Literature and Literality.”)
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2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y6100%17%0%87.33
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%67%0%81.33
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%33%33%102.00
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y3100%0%33%120.33
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y3100%33%0%77.33
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y3100%33%0%88.00
2023 BHSU Online04/15/2023Y4100%25%25%99.50
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y2100%100%0%45.00
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y3100%33%0%104.33

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Anson BernsWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People AgainColumbia B6715
Anson BernsWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People AgainUG Championship Players (and Mazin)7015
Daniel MaOlmo (Bonus) Bagelrymeet the new weird, same as the old weird7410
Caroline Maonats is supposed to mean you all have gone softmeet the new weird, same as the old weird8210
Daniel MaOlmo (Bonus) BagelryUG Championship Players (and Mazin)8310
Daniel MaOlmo (Bonus) BagelryWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again112-5
Daniel SheinbergUG Championship Players (and Mazin)nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft11310
Caroline Maonats is supposed to mean you all have gone softColumbia B12010
Kevin Wangmeet the new weird, same as the old weirdColumbia B12410
Forrest WeintraubColumbia Bmeet the new weird, same as the old weird1240
Mazin OmerWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People AgainOlmo (Bonus) Bagelry12410