Saturday, May 18, 2013
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| "Poetry is an even more bodily art than the art of dancing," says Robert Pinsky, who worries that many Americans think poetry is about fitting words together to create a clever phrase. Pinsky insists that poetry is the art of using the organs of speech. In his recent translation of Dante's Inferno, Pinsky paid special attention to the way the sounds fit together in order to create the illusion that the poem was written in English. Pinsky also discusses his interpretation of Dante's moral vision. The Inferno, Pinsky says, is not a poem about punishment. Instead, it speaks of the immense potential of the soul both to wound itself through sin and to arrive in Paradise. |  The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994) |
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| Dante Alighieri. Divine Comedy Literature--Poetry |