News at Eleven: With poetry, for me, it's almost

as if we live in this song-denominated universe. The music that resides inside the human tribes of the world, and the tears that the nations cry, their joys, it's as if they're not able to cry or have their joy unless they encode it in song. Growing up in Nigeria, there was a lot of song in the air. As you get older, those things come back.

I've done quite a bit of work with Pound. Of course, there were other issues surrounding him, but way before globalism, he was doing globalism of culture. [--Ifeanyi Menkiti]

from The Boston Globe: Salving the world's ills through poetry

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