Extract from Dante’s address to the reader in Paradiso II: 1-7

Issue 36

October 2021

And the cycle draws to a close. After three years of publishing monthly issues, we have decided to end this chapter of LPB as it started, with the stimulus that inspired our very first issue. Re-interpretation, after all, is no different from interpretation. O ye who, in a little boat embarked, / have, fain to listen, followed in the wake / of this my ship, which, singing, ploughs ahead, / go back to see your shores again! Start not / upon the ocean; for, if me ye lost, / ye might, perhaps, be left behind astray.

Playlist inspired by the stimulus

There are certain verses

Andrea Divus

There are certain verses – sometimes poems in whole – / Whose meaning I do not know. Yet that which I do not know

Flesh and Bones

Cosmonuts

A funk rendition of Euripides' "The Bacchae".

The Field

Ted J. Gibbs

He stood alone out in the field. The wind was heavy, hitting him in waves, and creating in his ears the sounds of...

Jay Parini, Borges and me

Juan Arabia

This novel by Jay Parini, while displaying true events that occurred fifty years ago, can work from various places...

The Value of Retelling the Same Story

Konstantinos Doxiadis

Is an influenced idea an idea of one’s own? Does the manifestation of structural similarity imply conceptual affinity...

On poetic natures: a conversation with Juan Arabia

Micaela Brinsley

Juan Arabia on poetry and pilgrimage.

Bulmenia - A Translation

Nacho Oliden

Beyond The Sun-Drenched Roadside

Kimon and Myrtias

Beyond the sun-drenched roadside / Past snowy caps and barren lands / Lies a small stone cottage

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