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Rimbaud’s Last Revelation

Ashbery’s translation is the best we have in English so far.

Tagged as: A Season in Hell, Alfred Corn, Arthur Rimbaud, ashbery, illuminations, Louise Varèse, Marianne Moore, Paul Schmidt, prose poem, Prose Poetry, Real Toads, Verlaine, Zoroastrian

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Translating Horace: Ode i.5

by Micah Towery Poetry and Poetics

Horace is just too good a craftsman for a translation to do him any ultimate justice. Yet I believe translators hope for a sort of “good will” that can exist between between themselves and the poet.

Tagged as: Anthony Hecht, David Ferry, Greek, heather mchugh, Horace, i.5, james mitchie, Johnny Cash, Latin, Milton, Odes, pyrrha, simplex munditiis, tear stained letter, Translation

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On Mimesis

by emilyvogel Poetry and Poetics

Aristotle meant that poetry was mimetic of all of things, independent of another poet’s unique perspective. It is not necessary that poets imitate other poets, but that they imitate life.

Tagged as: classes, emily vogel, experimental poetry, mimesis, Neruda, Neruda poem, Phantom, school, shtick, style, workshop

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The Wonderful Burden of Living: A Review of Milan Djordjevic’s Oranges and Snow

by Genevieve Burger-Weiser Poetry and Poetics

Djordjevic’s history of survival through political unrest and cruel accident made an impression on me before I read his work. But I had to learn to stand in each poem as if I were on an island.

Tagged as: charles simic, Eliot Weinberger, Facing Pages, George Oppen, honesty, Milan Djordjevic, oranges and snow, Princeton University Press, Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, surrealism

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Kenneth Burke: Do you Eros into Logos? (with a note on Tu Fu)

by Micah Towery Poetry and Poetics

Poets who write for self-expression write awful poetry. They don’t seek advice but affirmation.

Tagged as: 100 Chinese Poems, artist, Classics revisited, counter-statement, Eros, ESL, evocation, evoke, formalism, how tu fu works, Image, kenneth burke, kenneth rexroth, logos, MFA, poet, Poetry and Poetics, symbol, the poetic process, Tom Sleigh, Translation, Tu Fu

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We perceive a break between images and feeling. But perhaps this break is artificial. We acknowledge that images can evoke feelings, perhaps that there is an “objective correlative” that can reliably evoke feelings. But perhaps what is being suggested here is that the category break is weaker than we think. The image (object) is already interpreted: “values are the way we see things.”

Tagged as: 100 Chinese Poems, Classics revisited, Ezra Pound, hermeneutic circle, hermeneutics, Imagism, interpretation, montage, Sunset, Translation, Tu Fu

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Voices of the Fourth Generation

by Jonathan Wei Poetry and Poetics

The translated poems seem more interested in criticizing Chinese society than aesthetic expression. In spite of these issues, the translators should be respected for their down-to-earth choice of the poems.

Tagged as: Contemporary Chinese Poetry, Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro, Keming Liu, Mo Tou Bei Bei, The Metro Station, Voices of the Fourth Generation

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Some Notes on Translations of Horace

by Micah Towery Poetry and Poetics

If you are a poet writing in English, you carry Horace in your own voice.

Tagged as: charles simic, David Ferry, frank o'hara, heather mchugh, Horace, J. D. Mcclatchy, Mark Strand, My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness, Paul Muldoon, To the Harbormaster, To the Republic, Translation, Wyatt

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Rimbaud’s Last Revelation

Translating Horace: Ode i.5

On Mimesis

The Wonderful Burden of Living: A Review of Milan Djordjevic’s Oranges and Snow

Kenneth Burke: Do you Eros into Logos? (with a note on Tu Fu)

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