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The Paris Review - Feminize Your Canon: Forough Farrokhzad
WEBNov 19, 2020 · Our column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors. Read Forough Farrokhzad’s poems “After You” and “ Window ” in our Summer 2020 issue. In 1954, a nineteen-year-old poet walked unannounced into the office of the literary editor of Roshanfekr (The Intellectual), one of Iran’s most ...
The Paris Review - An Interview with Michael Hofmann
WEBDec 4, 2014 · Michael Hofmann’s first collection of poems, Nights in the Iron Hotel, came in 1984, and in the ensuing thirty years he has translated more than sixty novels from the German and published five more poetry collections, along the way collecting numerous prizes for his work.He is the editor of an anthology, Twentieth-Century German Poetry, and in 2002 published a collection of critical essays ...
The Paris Review - “Le Pont Mirabeau” by Guillaume Apollinaire
WEBIn 1912, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire published “Le Pont Mirabeau” in the journal Les Soirées de Paris; a year later the poem appeared in his collection Alcools. Even in Apollinaire’s lifetime, the melancholy piece—which uses the image of the ornate bridge spanning the flowing Seine to explore love and the …
In Praise of the Flâneur - The Paris Review
WEBOct 17, 2013 · Little things in life supplant the “great events.” —Peter Altenberg, as translated by Peter Wortsman The figure of the flâneur—the stroller, the passionate wanderer emblematic of nineteenth-century French literary culture—has always been essentially timeless; he removes himself from the world while he stands astride its heart. When Walter Benjamin brought Baudelaire’s conception ...
The Legacy of Audre Lorde - The Paris Review
WEBSep 17, 2020 · Her accomplishments tend to be diminished. The introducer might laugh awkwardly, rushing through whatever impoverished remarks they have prepared. Rarely do they do the necessary research to offer any sense of whom they are introducing. The Black woman is spoken of in terms of anecdote rather than accomplishment.
William Gaddis’s Disorderly Inferno - The Paris Review
WEBOct 19, 2020 · A magnificent example of rant. A perfect example really. The Recognitions, William Gaddis’s first novel, was seven years in construction. J R, his second, took more than twice that long. In each case the invalid miraculously arose and, with commanding vigor, transformed and transforming, entered the realm of great literature.
What We Know of Sappho - The Paris Review
WEBDec 8, 2020 · Intact, Sappho’s poems would be as alien to us as the once gaudily painted classical sculptures. In total, all the poems and fragments that have reached us, as brief, mutilated, and devoid of context as they are, add up to no more than six hundred lines. It has been calculated that around 7 percent of Sappho’s work has survived.
The Art of Fiction No. 206 - The Paris Review
WEBThe Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season, featuring the best interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Join us for intimate conversations with Sharon Olds and Olga Tokarczuk; fiction by Rivers Solomon, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Zach Williams; poems by Terrance Hayes and Maggie Millner; nonfiction by Robert ...
What We Can Learn from Neruda’s Poetry of Resistance
WEBMar 26, 2018 · We can all speak. We can all be part of the dialogue. And poetry can be part of the collective way we, in Neruda’s words, “explain some things.”. From Neruda and others we can see how the act of expressing ourselves, and the act of hearing, are core components of resistance—and of poetry’s unique, enduring power.