Poem: ‘Notes for ‘Anatole’s Tomb’’: A Translation by Patrick McGuinness
Stéphane Mallarmé, translated by Patrick McGuinness, 14 November 2002
child sprung from us both – showing us our ideal, the way – to us! father and mother who in sad existence survive him, like the two extremes – ill-matched in him and sundered from each other – whence his death – abolishing this little child ‘self’
sick in the springtime dead in the autumn – it’s the sun
the wave idea the cough 2)
son...
