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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 dictionary To call Sachin Deb Sachin Deb Merely – yes, I’ll deliver, I’m on it,
Bookshop Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888â1935) 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 âdoing nothing in life,â and ended one of his last poems with the summation, âGive me more wine, because life is nothing.â But while Pessoa may have be...