Carol Muske-Dukes is author of several essay collections, books of poetry--including
Sparrow, a National Book Award finalist--and novels.
I recently asked her what she was reading. Her reply:
I'm reading Murakami's Kafka on the Shore & re-reading a fascinating book called Comparative Perspectives, which provides several translations of well-known poems in different languages (I used it in a graduate course I taught at USC last semester called The Aesthetics of Translation), re-reading Auden's The Dyer's Hand, and also (for fun) Nora Ephron's books -- the Neck one and others, including Heartburn!
And I want to read next - The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science.
I'm also reading Fagles' translation of the Aeneid and Stanley Plumly's wonderful Posthumous Keats.
Read online Carol Muske-Dukes' poems "
Twin Cities," "
An Octave Above Thunder," and "
Like This," and visit
her website.
--Marshal Zeringue
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