"Crow, Donkey Poet: Sumana Roy on the Useless in the Poetic"
"It might have been all of these that pushed me towards an understanding of poetry as surplus. Having another language to think and live in, besides the one I wrote in, was an obvious surplus. English was the language of work and the workplace, and, perhaps because I earn a living as an academic in the humanities, the background noise comes to a person like me as artificial, an artifice where battles are fought. I write in English and cannot write to my satisfaction in any other language, but I cannot live in it."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Deborah Woodard on Amelia Rosselli's "The Dragonfly"
"What I hope comes through in my and Roberta Antognini’s translation of this passage is the obsessive insistence with which Rosselli demands we search for and find Ortensia, and how equally insistently the text embodies a desire that is somehow delicate, hermetic and insatiable by turns. Rosselli takes the onanistic, gratingly abrupt though brilliant original and gives it a brand new lyrical body along with a new subjectivity to inhabit that body." |
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