It will be etched in marble as part of a big renovation.
who could embody Shakespeare “as a living tradition in which poets are in ongoing dialogue with him and the many other writers that came before,” he says., and it occurred to him that she would be a perfect choice. Dove, who teaches at the University of Virginia, had read at the Folger several times and been entranced by Shakespeare since she was a child. “I wrote to Rita and said, ‘Look, we had this idea. I just felt like you have the right sensibility.
For Dove, the allure of the assignment was obvious. “The notion of putting poetry out into the streets of Washington—having it sneak up on people as they walk by—immediately appealed to me,” she says. “Washington is such a , but it’s also a city of inscriptions. And I think more than any other city in the United States, it’s a city where people actuallyTo come up with hers, Dove imagined who might be walking by the library and why. Then she tried to write something that would grab their attention. “If you can catch them with a three- or four-word phrase,” she says, “they might read on to see what the heck is going on.
The poem, which is about the length of a sonnet, took more than a year to write. Dove wanted each line to stand on its own so a passerby could read just a short bit and still get something out of it. And the unusual medium presented challenges.
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