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Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio

Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio

FromThe New Yorker: Poetry


Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio

FromThe New Yorker: Poetry

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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Dec 23, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Mary Jo Bang joins Kevin Young to to discuss her translation of Dante’s Purgatorio, excerpts of which are featured on newyorker.com. Bang is a poet who has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Hodder Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. Her latest book is “A Doll for Throwing.”
Released:
Dec 23, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Readings and conversation with The New Yorker's poetry editor, Kevin Young.