Contents
Acknowledgments
Part 1.
September Fourteenth
Acts of Faith
Careless Supplicant: An Interview with Nima Najafi-Kianfar
Doubt and Seeking: A Conversation with Ilya Kaminsky
Disappearances: An Interview with Britney Gulbrandsen
Third Eye Who Sees: On the Source of Spiritual Search in Sappho’s Gymnasium by T Begley and Olga Broumas
Poetry and Space
Poetics of G-D
The Rose Is My Qibla: Sohrab Sepehri’s Journey East
Yoga and Cessation of the Self
Part 2.
What’s American about American Poetry?
Poet Crossing Borders
Attempted Treasons: Some Notes on Recent Translations
Bringing the House Down: Computer Viruses in Anne Carson’s Euripides
Old School
Translation Is a Trick
Pythagorean Poetics
Ode to Silence: Lecture Notes
Syllabus for a Semester on Silence
The Opening
Bibliography