"From Prisoner to Poet to Pulitzer"
Carl Sandburg enjoyed a life-long relationship to the city of Pittsburgh, despite his first visit's ending with a stint in jail. “O the poetry and romance over this Pittsburg town! Slopes and hillsides with electric lights twinkling bluish and flashing long banners of gleam along the river—and every once in a while we pass shadowy hulking sheds with yellow hell-mouths flaming—and the grim steel workers moving around like devils put to use.”
via PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Vivek Narayanan on a Poem’s Re-Entering History
"[O]nce a poem is out in the world, there’s no way to predict the different uses, appropriations, misappropriations, readings and anti-readings to which it might be put, nor the places and times where it might emerge, uncanny, as if with fresh meaning. Bei Dao’s 'The Reply' ('Huídá,' sometimes also translated as 'Answer') is one such poem, with an intense career all its own.” |
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