The Translation Conundrum: What to Do? What to Do?

Here’s a pretty little question. One that’s so broad I have a hard time wrapping my head around it. What does one do when one is handed a big question? If you are me then you throw it into the ether and see what happens to it. Commence throwing arm . . . now!

Yesterday, David Jacobson (author of the truly wonderful, original, and rare Are You an Echo?: The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko , board member of the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative, and fellow with the International Youth Libr...