Wilson wrote in great and excruciating detail about why she chose “complicated” as the translation, yet you dismiss it as if if was some sort of casual, thoughtless decision: https://emily613.substack.com/p/on-complicated
Rest assured that she’s given more thought to every single word in that poem than almost anyone else alive.
Wilson’s translation is in my reading queue before I see the film, but whether I like it or not is completely irrelevant to the quality of the work, which is best assessed by the folks who actually study this stuff for a living.
I see nothing tangible in your comment other than “I think it’s artless and dumb,” which is not as convincing as you seem to think.
Rest assured that she’s given more thought to every single word in that poem than almost anyone else alive.
Wilson’s translation is in my reading queue before I see the film, but whether I like it or not is completely irrelevant to the quality of the work, which is best assessed by the folks who actually study this stuff for a living.
I see nothing tangible in your comment other than “I think it’s artless and dumb,” which is not as convincing as you seem to think.