Let the Light Shine in 2021
Welcome to a new year of the best contemporary poetry delivered to your inbox every morning. We hope the poems we choose delight and inspire you, whether they are written in English or translated from the cornucopia of the world’s languages. Stay safe and stay well. |
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"In Memory of Jean Valentine"
“Looking into a Jean Valentine poem is like looking into a lake: you can see your own outline, and the shapes of the upper world, reflected among rocks, underwater life, glint of lost bottles, drifted leaves. The known and familiar become one with the mysterious and half-wild, at the place where consciousness and the subliminal meet."
viaCOPPER CANYON PRESS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Mónica de la Torre on "Variation I"
"Take, for example, the 'verdura' rhyming with 'segura' in the Camões, which in the translations I’ve already written appears as verdure, greenery, and lushness depending on what the variation in question most needs. Hatherly does this herself throughout when she uses a range of synonyms, and interestingly also thought of her reinterpretation of traditional texts as an act of translation that has the effect of altering the original." |
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