Chekhov's Mistress
Cavanagh on Szymborska
Even though they frustratingly don’t provide an RSS feed, the Poetry Foundation has a blog. They put it to good use too. Today’s bit is from Clare Cavanagh, great translator of poets like Adam Zagajewski and Wislawa Szymborska:
“Szymborska for one, though, would be shocked to find herself ranked among the metaphysically serious and universally significant world powers of modern poetry.
She celebrates the ‘joy of writing’ in one famous lyric. She is, if anything, even more persuasive on the highly underrated joy of not writing she extols in ‘In Praise of My Sister.’ ‘When my sister asks me over for lunch,’ she explains,
I know she doesn’t want to read me her poems.
Her soups are delicious without ulterior motives.
Her coffee doesn’t spill on manuscripts.
She is preoccupied here, as throughout her work, with the relationship between poetry and the daily life that surrounds it, feeds it, and at times altogether ignores it."
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