"A Glimmering Manuscript"
The illuminated Divan of Hafez, a 15th-century manuscript collection of the Persian poet's ghazals, goes to auction next month after being stolen in 2007. "The Divan’s whereabouts remained a mystery until last year, when Dutch art crime investigator Arthur Brand—who is sometimes referred to as 'the Indiana Jones of the art world'—tracked it down."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Marianne Boruch on Carl Sandburg's "Limited"
"A solid first person speaker lives in, and guides Sandburg’s poem which is both contained and expansive in its imagery, those steely trains so tightly made crossing a continent of grassland and farms and woods and cities and poverty and fortune. There’s thinking (via assertion and the underground parenthetical) and conversation in the piece, a sense of myth and miraculous in the ordinary, rust and ashes waiting in what is snappy-fast and gleaming. Nothing is as it seems." |
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