Tuesday, October 06, 2009

News at Eleven: [Robert Bly] has been translating poetry

since the 1950s, when he was in Norway on a Fulbright scholarship. Encountering a world of unknown foreign poets was eye-opening, with their wild imagery and freewheeling style that ignored the staid rules of meter and structure that governed traditional English and American poetry.

from Star Tribune: The Poet Comes Home

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