Byron: a God in Greece
"Unique among the philhellenes who aided in the struggle for Greek independence, Byron even has a public statue in Athens in his honour: a bare-chested female personification of Greece, crowning the poet with a palm branch. All are reminders of the unalloyed admiration in which he was and is held in Greece—where he died 200 years ago, in April 1824—in contrast to the Anglophone world, where his reception has ever been more uneven and 'complicated.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Evelyn Reilly on "Having Broken, Are"
"I live in New York City and also down a dirt road in the country, and that dual existence is part of the 'reality' of both the title poem and the poem sequences that make up most of this book. I put 'reality' in quotation marks because all poems, I believe, are attempts to channel what Sun RA (who is also an interlocutor in this book) calls the 'impossible possible,' which is both a reality and not. Seeking possible words for impossible possibilities I take as one of poetry’s tasks." |
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