
Crafting with Ursula : Isaac Yuen on Writing Nature & Nature Writing
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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Can We Translate Penguin Poetry?
i love the element, there'st one part in their words they're talking about how it's not kinetic. Poetry is not translatable into words, and the best a translation possible is through a ballet,. It would be just like writing a libretto without the opera component, like s inle. And on a broader level, i love halloquin uses this obsession of the very minute details, which is necessary for a lot of scientific work. She captures that, but she also can pull back and look at the grand implications of why we do the work that we do. So i think for this it's almost like a really good science communication piece.
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