The poems in "Herostories" are made entirely of found text from "Íslenskar ljósmæður I-III" ("Icelandic Midwives I-III"), volumes of short biographical articles about midwives who worked around the island from the late 18th to the early 20th century. Published in the 1960s, some Icelandic Midwives entries are memoir by the midwives themselves, some were written by contemporaries or descendants, and some were written by priests gathering the material.
K. B. Thors on [the guideman would want to turn back] |
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"Summer by Johannes Göransson"
"This antagonism between the languages brings us back to the question of the relationship between English and Swedish in Summer. While earlier in the poem there seemed to be a superfluous or inflationary relationship between the English and the Swedish, a lilac field of copies, here we see emerging skirmishes between the two, comprising invasions of privacy and secret messages embedded from each other."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Robert Pinsky on the Favorite Poem Project
"I think of Emiko Emori’s video of a Cambodian-American high school student reading 'Minstrel Man' by Langston Hughes, David Roderick’s video of a bomber pilot who served in Vietnam reading Yusef Komunyakaa’s 'Facing It' at the Vietnam Memorial, Natatcha Estébanez’s videos of a U.S. Marine reading 'Politics' by William Butler Yeats, and of a construction worker reading from Walt Whitman’s 'Song of Myself.'" |
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