Episode 122 Bonus: Mark S. Burrows on Translation as a Primary Act

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Episode 122 Bonus: Mark S. Burrows on Translation as a Primary Act

Christie Aschwanden

Oct 10, 2024

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In this thoughtful bonus episode, translator and poet Mark S. Burrows reads the final poem in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, and then reads his translation. We talk about the poem itself, its invitation toward creating our own lives, how life is in the vowels, translation as a primary (not derivative) act, and the joy in the unfinished (unfini…

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Emerging Form is a podcast about the creative process in which a journalist (Christie Aschwanden) and a poet (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer) discuss creative conundrums over wine. Each episode concludes with a game of two questions in which a guest joins in to help answer questions about the week's topic. Season one guests include poets, novelists, journalists, a song writer, a circus performer, a sketch artist and a winemaker.

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