A review by smm231
East Window: Poems from Asia by W. S. Merwin

4.0

These probably aren't technically translations - Merwin doesn't know the languages involved, so he either worked with people who did or consulted former translations. Why I'm OK with him doing that but am decidedly not with Stephen Mitchell, I'm not entirely sure. Most likely it's because Merwin has a poet's voice and Mitchell doesn't. That voice makes these interesting, even if I can't tell whether it's just Merwin or it's in the poems themselves. Either way, it's worth reading.