What Sparks Poetry:
A Short List of Books Ilya Kaminsky Loved in 2021
"Jerzy Ficowski is perhaps best known for saving Bruno Schulz's legacy for us. The fact that he is also a great Polish poet in his own right is relatively unknown in the US. But Everything I Don't Know changes that. Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer's translations are a masterwork of clarity and precision." |
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Reginald Dwayne Betts is Building Prison Libraries
"[W]hen you remove the bunks and you put something that was beautifully handcrafted and you put these specially-selected 500 books that run the gamut [in] genre: from mystery to science fiction to philosophy to poetry to drama. When you put those books on those shelves, it transforms the space and it becomes calming and it becomes a reminder of what you want to leave prison and go to, and why it matters to leave that place."
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