"Poet Mary Jo Bang Reaches the End of Her 20-Year Journey Through Dante's Divine Comedy"
"I was reading that poem, and I was struck with two things. One was how antiquated the language was, even when the translation was quite contemporary. And the other thing I was struck by was that there were no two translations that were alike. And that was a lesson, I think, in the fact that there is no single way to carry over one language into another language."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Matt Broaddus on Building Community
"A major interest of mine, in terms of bringing in historical reference, is just trying to acknowledge that where I am is not the be-all-end-all and won’t be the be-all-end-all. What I mean by that is that where I’m writing from is just a blip, you know, and my writing and my literary self on the page is in many ways an outgrowth of historical forces that are beyond my control. I think that one way I can feel like my art is engaging with these forces is to write about them and to move the past into the present." |
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