I think of the boxing match at the end of the poem as ceremonial--merely an obligation of the mating season that will not culminate in death. I doubt any of this is zoologically accurate, but I'm in no hurry to check.
Angela Ball on "Hares" |
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Elizabeth Bishop's Work Translated to Scottish Gaelic
"In a fusion of two cultures, one of the works created by Elizabeth Bishop – an American born poet and short-story writer – will be unveiled in Glasgow tonight after it was translated by a local University lecturer. Organised by the University of Glasgow's College of Arts & Humanities, the Elizabeth Bishop in Glasgow: A Symposium event will bring together scholars, students, writers, translators, and readers from around the globe to delve deep into Bishop's influential body of work."
via THE HERALD SCOTLAND |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Alina Stefanescu on Language as Form
"Gaps are loud: they announce an absence. I love thinking about how absences are announced. In Wolf's lyric serialism, the fragments reveal their constraints: they recombine to offer a speaker starved of affection or tenderness. The absence is announced through sparsity. Other absences are announced through excess, as in accumulations of descriptions where the accretion reveals that something is missing." |
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