"And again now, and now, and now"
Naka, Celan, Hughes, Stone, Tate
TarÅ Naka (tr. from Japanese by Naoshi Koriyama and Edward Lueders):
Paul Celan (tr. from German by Pierre Joris):
Ted Hughes:
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James Tate:
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âwe can perhaps say that poetry is play, or that play is poetry; after all, poiein means âto makeâ in Greek. We canât help being makers and re-makers in this world, where everything constantly collapses around us and in us. As grown-ups we continue playing, when we write or read poetry, because poetry saves whatever is true, good, and beautiful. The Iliad is not about war, it is about love: âWhatever is not war, whatever war destroys or threatens, the Iliad wraps in poetry; the realities of war, never.ââ
- Mateusz StróŌyÅski