Tag: Rita Dove
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suggestion via Rita Dove
Suggestion is a key element to poetry. Whether it’s a matter of word choice, how using the word “broken,” say, suggests its opposite, “fixed”; or within the structure of a metaphor itself, the juxtaposition of two things bringing to mind a further connection, suggestion is one word for poetry’s ability to tap into language’s conspiratorial […]
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* stepping out with rita dove & holderlin
My translation of Borges two weeks ago received a great response on here – thank you all for your kind words! This week’s poem, “Reading Holderlin on the Patio with the Aid of a Dictionary” by Rita Dove, evokes some of the fascination and thrill of working out a poem from one language to another, how […]
The Friday Influence 