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What's Your Poet
Animal?
FSG Poetry Quiz
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While you may know
your spirit animal, we suspect your poet animal might not be so obvious. To
help you navigate this year's Poetry Month, the team at Work in Progress
has created another Highly Scientific Quiz with drawings from Timothy
Taranto that matches your lyrical leanings with a character from a poem by
one of FSG's beloved poets.
Read on...
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Interstellar
Poetry: Derek Walcott and Star Trek
Toby Barlow
On Writers
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I grew up watching
old movies and lots of TV shows. My mother took me to the movies and
steered me away from the television. But I snuck home and watched,
absorbing everything I could. I'm still amazed at how many scenes of the
old Star Trek took place in the elevator, coming down off the bridge. They
would get in there and Bones and Kirk would talk about Spock, or Nurse
Chapel and Bones would talk about Kirk, or nobody would talk at all and
they just look sneaky and askance at each other while a Klingon stared
straight ahead, unaware that a big karate chop was coming.
Read on...
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"In the
Greenhouse"
Eugenio Montale
Translated by
Jonathan Galassi
Selected by Stuart Dybek
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This is a poem
from Eugenio Montale's Collected
Poems, a book that never leaves my bedside table that I think has
been perfectly translated. I can't imagine life without them.
Read on...
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"Rubaiyat"
Lawrence Joseph
Selected by John Freeman
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Named after the
great work by Persian poet, astronomer, philosopher and Omar Khayyam,
Lawrence Joseph's "Rubaiyat" is nothing less than a contemporary
cosmology for the Forever War. Where are the heavens when satellites clog
them, looking for bomb targets? What is order, when the rationale of modern
states is schizophrenic?
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"How much
happens in a day"
Pablo Neruda
Translated by
Alastair Reid
Selected by Vicki Genna
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This poem is a
great reminder of how precious life is. As Neruda writes, "joy in all
things, in what falls and what flourishes." Enjoy life, appreciate its
beauty, and know that it takes just one moment for everything to change.
Read on...
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