Word: poetic
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...University of Georgia. Humble and soft-spoken, Barks acknowledges that his translations are often far from exact renditions of the Farsi of Rumi's day?which in any case he doesn't speak. To create them, he has used literal translations provided by others. Barks' emphasis on poetic essence over linguistic exactitude owes a strong debt to earlier poet-translators like Robert Bly, Kenneth Rexroth and Ezra Pound who championed a style of direct, aggressively unacademic translation. Following their example, Barks was able to create an American Rumi: one who speaks across the centuries with a voice as direct...
...years, Grolier Poetry Book Shop has been a site for poetic pilgrimage. Last night, its devotees ventured away from the shop’s cramped quarters on Plympton Street to the spacious Sanders Theatre, where its most famous patrons gathered to honor the anniversary...
Lewis and Clark saw themselves as Army officers. Their instructions from their Commander in Chief were clear, and the spirit behind them was practical, not poetic: claim the West and its wealth for the U.S. With Spain to the south and Britain to the north and everything in the middle up for grabs, the first American space race had begun. The expansion of knowledge was one objective--the mission was furnished with scientific instruments--but the expansion of power was its chief goal...
Mendes waxes even more poetic about the U.S.--it's no coincidence both of his films revolve around American archetypes like gangsters and suburban teenagers. "This is the country of myth in the 20th century," he says. "There are very few others that can bear the weight of a big story. It's one of the reasons The Godfather, the closest we've come to Shakespeare in the 20th century, wouldn't work in any other country in the world." The America of his films may be troubled, but Mendes talks like an immigrant for whom Hollywood...
...evidence definitive? Not yet. But it does hint that nature has a powerful sense of poetic justice...