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Elizabeth Bishop’s (Alice Quinn’s, really) Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box

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Clearly a labor of love for Alice Quinn. I found her copious endnotes far more pleasurable than the fragments and abandoned poems. Remind me to destroy my fragments folder before I die. My favorite quotes: “Translating poetry is like trying to put your feet into gloves.” “…the situation of the poet: the difficulty of combining Read More …