Too Free for the Panthéon?
The debate in France over whether to enshrine the poets Rimbaud and Verlaine in the Panthéon is heating up. "A petition seeks to honor them, but critics ask if it’s about poetry or sexuality, and whether such rebels would be out of place in an august shrine to national heroes."
viaTHE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Forrest Gander on "It Must Be a Misunderstanding"
"I chose to translate this whole book rather than another selected edition because, although composed of individual poems, It Must Be a Misunderstanding is really a deeply affecting book-length work whose force builds as the poems cycle through their sequences. The 'plot' follows a general trajectory—from early to late Alzheimer’s—with non-judgmental affection and compassionate watchfulness." |
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