June Jordan's poem "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language" (found at PoetryFoundation.org) uses numbers and measurements from an atlas as her starting point for describing the difficulty of understanding between those of us separated by distance or language.
I am writing this on the day after the Super Bowl, particularly conscious of the fact that I do not know the language of football. And that many others do not know the language of mathematics. Let us try hard to understand those things that are beyond language.
Here is the first section (of eight) from Jordan's poem:
Problems of Translation: Problems of Language by June Jordan
Showing posts with label atlas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label atlas. Show all posts
Monday, February 4, 2013
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
