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Almost seven hundred years ago Dante Alieghieri took us on a terrifying and mesmerizing journey through the nine circles of hell. He could never have predicted that today, in that same poem, the sin of gluttony would be represented by the South Park Character Eric Cartman. This isn’t a joke, but a way of modernizing Dante’s epic, and of showing that it still speaks to us as a serious work of art. On this episode of WHY?, we’re going to take our own journey, not through hell, but through the nature and limits of poetry, of what it means, and how it speaks to us
Mary Jo Bang is a poet, translator, and professor of English at Washington University in Saint Louis. She is the author of six books of poems and a a new translation of Dante’s Inferno.
This episode was recorded at the University of 2013 University of North Dakota Writers Conference. WHY? thanks the Conference, its organizers, and donors for allowing us to interview one of their invitees.
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Publication Date
3-21-2013
Publisher
Institute for Philosophy in Public Life
City
Grand Forks, ND
Keywords
American poetry |y 21st century ; Women poets, American--21st century
Disciplines
Philosophy
Recommended Citation
Weinstein, Jack Russell and Bang, Mary Jo, "The Philosophy of Poetry" (2013). Why? Radio Podcast Archive. 83.
https://commons.und.edu/why-radio-archive/83