"Naomi Shihab Nye on Poetry, Humanity, and WiFi"
"Nye tells me the job of poetry is to serve humanity on the ground. The entrenched divisions in the Middle East, she points out, are not the children’s fault, and they’re not the fault of the elderly, such as her late grandmother. 'So many people not in power would prefer not to be involved in such political grievances,' she remarks. 'It’s poetry, not politics.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Matvei Yankelevich on "Rug/Hydrangea"
"Interpretation in this case has to do as much with the author’s historical context and (contextually-bound) poetics as it does with the gist of a phrase, a line, or any semantic or aesthetic unit. The tricky thing is to enact the poem within the scope of the interpretation. It is this tension between interpretation (contextual meaning) and performance (the gesture, the gist) that constitutes a translation." |
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