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RT @AmitMajmudar: New collection (Things My Grandmother Said, @AAKnopf 2026) has 3 subsections I translated an epigraph for each (in clev…

Ibn Battuta’s explanation of how the Hindu Kush mountain range got its name is correct.

New collection (Things My Grandmother Said, @AAKnopf 2026) has 3 subsections I translated an epigraph for each (in cleverly cross-cultural ways) One from Goethe One from Borges One from Adi Sankara Presiding spirits that I hope will bless what will be a breakthrough volume

@ae_stallings Fiction and nonfiction mostly but that is most people This was kind of shocking to me Interestingly “furrows the brow” was recognized as an idiom (fiction writers use it often) but the agricultural origin of the term was not

@vjgtweets “The leaders in whom it rusts” is an inspired Freudian slip of the fingers

@TPeshwa Subject of a play by Goethe that actually holds up pretty well

This is amazing stuff

RT @AmitMajmudar: 1/ I write a lot of formal verse but you might notice I also publish a lot of free verse poems but the two arts are rela…

@noonessleep Make sure you read Three Metamorphoses The final section retells Hindu myths of transformation with each verse paragraph in a different form suited to the subject matter

@Fitzthewriter No that is too extreme a position

4/ the human ear & mind can't resist the "bones" of the poem it grows attractive/effective at a structural level *by appealing to the same pattern-recognition pleasure-centers that straight meter & rhyme used to* before ppl were trained out of liking that in page poetry try it

@EPButler Intuitive grasp obviates the need for theory, no? - often it leaves the pious indifferent - the fish doesn’t study how it swims

Many thanks to @StevenEKnepper for highlighting one of my more timely essays There’s an entire poetic education in this month’s NVR roundup! Do check it out

@newversereview Thanks so much for sharing the essay and rounding up so many excellent poetry resources!

RT @AmitMajmudar: Audiobooksd another novel more famous as a movie (which I haven’t seen) This was a fun novel—French sci fi Same autho…

Audiobooksd another novel more famous as a movie (which I haven’t seen) This was a fun novel—French sci fi Same author wrote The Bridge on the River Kwaï. He tells a good story!