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...language creation, and all of its linguistic uniqueness is lost when it is translated. To whatever extent a poetic translation is linguistically pleasing, it is entirely due to the work of the translator, not the original poet. At the same time, poetry is a distillation of consciousness; most poems also have some sort of message or meaning they are trying to convey. It is much more the translator’s duty to preserve the integrity of this message than to re-imagine it, and many of the translations Ferry read attested to his remarkable success in this regard...
...piece about the death of a former mentor. Ferry did not divide his performance into a translation section and an original works section, but rather switched back and forth. In so doing, Ferry allowed for a better appreciation of the differences and fundamental similarities between the various genres of poems he performed. The last two lines of verse Ferry read (from a Babylonian poem, “Prayer to the Gods of the Night”) were: “Establish the truth in the ritual omen, / In the offered lamb establish the truth.” And indeed, these...
...another successful segment, actors from the ART Institute performed, in an avant garde production, excerpts from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, adapted and directed by Mercedes Murphy. Dealing (in part) with the barren aftermath of the tragedy of World War I, the poem took on new meaning in dealing with the tragedy, as New York City became the “Unreal City” of the poem. With harrowing background music by Samrat Chakrabarti, the difficult piece emerged as a relevant theatrical moment...
...Carl Sandburg poem, “Skyscrapers,” made a fitting eulogy for the World Trade Center itself. Ken Cheeseman’s reading began with the line: “By the day, the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul.” A celebration of those who worked within the towars and of the proud buildings themselves, the piece was appropriately sobering and provocative...
...shop, but so do laborers, MBTA workers, post office workers, guards and those who have never even considered going to college. Poetry evidently has a wider appeal than is sometimes obvious. Solano has an idea about that: “Once a person has found even one poet or poem that really touches him or her, eventually a love of poetry works away at the person...