Some phrases in this poem come from articles by Yale law professor Heather Gerken. Similar to TV ads where politicians have to admit that they "endorse this message," Gerkin and her collaborators propose that ads funded by groups that don't want to reveal their donors must include the text, 'The ad was paid for by X, which does not disclose the identity of its donors." In The Washington Post, Gerkin wrote, "Given how much of the campaign-finance system the court has eviscerated in recent years, disclosures are becoming the only game in town."
Jena Osman on "Disclosures" |
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Forrest Gander on Nina Iskrenko & Alexander Yeremenko
"It wasn’t until I was rereading Bulgakov’s The Master and Marguerite (in Michael Glenny’s translation, which I prefer to the others) that I came across the very line I had translated in Yeremenko’s poem: 'I never eat when I’m drinking.' Like many Russian poems, Yeremenko’s seem to call for pages of footnotes to explain the references. Yet I find them powerful even without knowing all the allusions."
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What Sparks Poetry: Philip Metres on"Qasida for Abdel Wahab Yousif"
"The qasida begins with human longing. The moderns didn’t invent it! It was in the human heart. This is the nasīb, which means 'fate,' the poet is in a nostalgic mood. Sometimes, pursuing the beloved, the poet will come upon the remains of a camp, the beloved’s caravan, causing a consideration of what has passed. If it begins with longing and its endless distances (thanks, Robert Hass), it doesn’t stay there, but rather moves into the trouble of the world." |
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