This Week - October 13
October 10th, 2006
History in fiction and poetry is our theme. We talk with Elizabeth Kostova about her debut novel THE HISTORIAN and with Martin Espada about THE REPUBLIC OF POETRY. Kostova uses the Dracula legend to spin a yarn about the nature of evil, what history says about it, and how we should should respond to it.
Poet Martin Espada joins us to talk about his new collection, THE REPUBLIC OF POETRY. In July 2004, Espada went to Chile for the commemoration of Pablo Neruda’s centenary. The first part of this, Espada’s eighth poetry volume, comprises a cycle of poems that emerged from that journey. Rafael Campo wrote: “The Republic of Poetry is a dreamland, a utopia, a paradise of the imagination, where the local food is salutation and valediction, where the bloodstained piazzas speak history, and where the law of the land is empathy.” He will be giving a reading at Food For Thought Books in Amherst, MA on October 18 at 7 pm and at the Montague Book Mill on Saturday, October 21 at 2 pm.
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