The Heretical Gift of Poetry with Alina Stefanescu
Bianca Stone talks with the Romanian born poet, Alina Stefanescu about her incredible new collection of poetry, My Heresies, from Sarabande Books. We discuss the art of the heretical, the absurdity of confessional speaker, the dialectical push through fallenness and goodness; the barbaric and so much more. The Illiterate By William Meredith Alina Stefanescu was born […]
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God In the Inward Dark: Rilke’s Radical Book of Hours
Read along with the PDF available in the show-notes! After a hiatus, Bianca Stone is back to discuss Rilke. Taking a break from the Elegies to look back at Rilke’s first collection, A Book for the Hours of Prayer (Das Stundenbuch) from the Robert Bly translated “Selected Rilke.” In these poems there is a fierce […]
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It’s Raining in a Dead Language: The Fragments of Franz Wright, with Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright
In this rich and searching episode, Bianca Stone talks with the translator Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright about her partner, the late poet, Franz Wright, focusing on a new chapbook from Foundling Press, At His Desk In The Past. This chapbook is the first U.S. publication of new work by Franz Wright since his death in 2015. […]
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Reading with Rilke: the Sixth Elegy, Ben Pease
The hero dominates the 6th elegy w his strange cosmic presence against the lovers; as a fig tree & its self-contained fruit/flower fuels Rilke’s sundry metaphor & crescendos into the Samson myth. Much is gleaned in the complex image of the fig tree & its strange fruit-flower-seed pod, that encompasses so much rich metaphor and […]
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Reading with Rilke: The Fifth Elegy, Alfred Corn
Poet and translator Alfred Corn, joins Bianca Stone to discuss his stunning translation of Rilke's, Die Fünfte Elegie.
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