"Poem of the Week: To Tartar, a Terrier Beauty"
"Beddoes remains a fascinating and sometimes startlingly good poet. When he turns his attention to smaller players in the jest-book of mortality, as in this week’s poem, the imaginative scrutiny remains intense. There’s a disproportionality about his address to this 'snowdrop of dogs,' which animates the ordinary doggy presence and amplifies its mystery from the start—or almost from the start."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Mónica de la Torre on "Variation I"
"Take, for example, the 'verdura' rhyming with 'segura' in the Camões, which in the translations I’ve already written appears as verdure, greenery, and lushness depending on what the variation in question most needs. Hatherly does this herself throughout when she uses a range of synonyms, and interestingly also thought of her reinterpretation of traditional texts as an act of translation that has the effect of altering the original." |
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