- A Rough Mind-Map of Ezra Pound Sometimes it helps to draw out the context around things. Â This is how I made sense of Ezra Pound and his place in modernist poetry as I was thumbing through his Translations on Christmas Eve. Â I always knew he’d helped propel T.S. Eliot into stardom, but I actually didn’t realize how close he was with […]
- “These Are No Sonnets for an Idle Hour”; Italian Poetry in Translation Ever since I was an undergraduate at UMBC, I have been awestruck by the impossibility of such things as translating poetry. Â It cannot truly be done without re-creating the poem into a new form, because of the obvious limits of word-for-word translation. I spent my final year at UMBC studying Guido Cavalcanti’s poems in […]