May 25, 2022
In a wide-ranging and knowledgeable interview, poet and translator Ryan Wilson joins the podcast to discuss how poets utilize classical virtues. xenia Hospitality, what poets can learn from the work of translation, the “romantic turn” (inner vision) and the “classical turn” (communication/technique) in poetry, the great Latin poet Horace, etc. Ryan performs classic poems by Horace and others as well as his own poems in a dynamic style.
Ryan Wilson is an adjunct professor of English at The Catholic University of America and editor of this journal. literary mattersis a visiting professor of poetry in the MFA program at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. He is the author of three books: unknown world, A collection of original poems. how to think like a poet;and Proteus Bound: Selected Translations, 2008-2020. His upcoming collection of contemporary Catholic poetry will be published by Paraclete Press (spring 2023), as well as another collection of original poetry.
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0:00 – Proteus Bound
13:09 – Hospitality as a fundamental principle of community, thought, and poetry
28:05 – Romantic and classic turns
46:22 – Ryan Wilson, “Zenia”
53:39 – Proteus, Hermes and Orpheus as poetic figures
1:03:35 – Translation as training for poets
1:17:47 – Horatius’ Latin Poem
2:07:55 – Charles Baudelaire “The Voice”
2:20:00 – Ryan’s relationship with classical literature as a Catholic
2:27:10 – Ryan Wilson, “Philoctetes”
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Proteus Bound: Selected Translations, 2008-2020
https://www.cuapress.org/9781736656129/proteus-bound/
https://www.wisebloodbooks.com/store/p97/How_to_Think_Like_a_Poet%2C_by_Ryan_Wilson.html
http://www.measurepress.com/measure/index.php/catalog/books/stranger-world/
literary matters https://www.literarymatters.org/
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