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Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio
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Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio

Mary Jo Bang Discusses Purgatorio

The New Yorker: Poetry

December 23, 201937m 34s

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Show Notes

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.”

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