Grecorromanas: Lírica superviviente de la Antigüedad clásica

La editorial Austral nos ha presentado recientemente su colección “poesía en voz de mujer”, una colección de libros que tratan de da visibilidad a obras escritas por mujeres. Hoy recomendamos concretamente Grecorromanas: Lírica superviviente de la Antigüedad clásica. La selección de textos, la introducción y la traducción vienen de la mano de la prolífica Aurora…

Safo por Guilherme Gontijo Flores

Poiesis

Caros,

Lembramos que, no próximo sábado, dia 07 de abril, acontecerá o segundo encontro do Poiesis.

O professor, tradutor e poeta Guilherme Gontijo Flores, vencedor do Jabuti pela tradução dos fragmentos de Safo, nos apresentará a obra da poeta grega.

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Searching for Poet Frank Stanford

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In many cases, dying young grants many artists a type of sainthood, forever shrouding them in mystery, and protecting their profile from the inevitable creative and stylistic ravages of age. Some famous examples are Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Belushi, Kurt Cobain, and poet Frank Stanford.

For the Poetry Foundation, writer Ben Ehrenreich sifts through Stanford’s papers at Yale, gives his work a close read and travels to Arkansas where Stanford grew up and eventually met his end in 1978. Best known for the 500-page poetic magnum opus The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, unanswered questions still swirl around the young poet, questions about what parts of his mythology were self-made or true. Called “a swamprat Rimbaud,” Stanford had a strong relationship with death, both on and off the page, and the pages he left behind continue to inspire and tantalize readers, as new generations discover…

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