"The Resurrecting Powers of Poetry"
"For me, poetry fills the space, the desire, for a kind of religious experience, for a sort of transcendent experience, for a way in which we get to think of ourselves as eternal beings....that we’re not just sort of floating through the world, but that our experience and our place in this world is important."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Raquel Salas Rivera on "Churchless Sunday"
"One verse in particular left me unsatisfied with my translation: 'pasan bajo el calor de mi ventana' became 'pass beneath my sweltry window.' 'Sweltry' is a weighty word, and I imagine the nuns suffering under their frocks in the Caribbean heat, but 'calor' remits to human warmth, even tenderness, those things—like the smell of used books and towels and the entangled scent of incense—that are of the flesh." |
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