"Will You Fall in Love With This Poem? I Did."
Critic A. O. Scott finds rhapsody in Diane Seuss' poem, "Romantic Poet." "She isn’t simply countering the scholar’s critique of Keats’s sloppy life by insisting on his immaculate art. This nightingale is a real bird, which is to say it’s the bird made real by Keats’s poem. And therefore also Keats himself, made real in Seuss’s poem—a living, embodied presence she cannot help loving, in spite of whatever unpleasantness her scholar friend might reveal about him. That’s true romance."
viaTHE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry: Ranjit Hoskote on Translation
"Mir’s voice speaks with clarity and urgency, with anguish and a timely critical resonance to our historical moment. His themes are our themes, his loss is our loss, his bewilderment is our bewilderment—the destroyed city, the devastated countryside, the scattering of friends, the exactions of exile. All these are features of our lives today, in a world marred by genocidal wars and forced migrations, invasions and insurrections, tanks and bulldozers, bombed cities and slaughtered populations." |
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