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Along with his poetry, Howard was acclaimed for his translations of French literature, including a version of Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal' that won a National Book Award

NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Howard, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet celebrated for his exuberant monologues of historical figures and a prolific translator who helped introduce readers to a wide range

NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Howard, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet celebrated for his exuberant monologues of historical figures and a prolific translator who helped introduce readers to a wide range of French literature, has died at age 92.

‘These days I enjoy getting irritated from time to time’: The unexpected prose poems of Joy Goswami An excerpt from After ‘Death Comes Water: Selected Prose Poems’, Joy Goswami, translated from the Bengali by Sampurna Chattarji, Eating leaves and grass It takes one year eleven months to get one line of poetry A baby entered the womb, was born, waved its arms and legs about, learnt to walk, Babble baby talk – and I? Couldn’t pluck up the courage, even today, to call a dictionary a d...

Bookshop Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) contained a multitude of adventurous personalities despite his staid lifestyle, according to translator Zenith ( The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa) in this gloriously labyrinthine biography. Zenith recaps the outwardly uneventful existence of Pessoa, who published only a fraction of his writing before his death, had one brief romance, extolled the virtue of “doing nothing in life,” and ended one of his last poems with...