Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08542
United States
Free and open to the public.
Princeton University English Department welcomes poet Michael Bazzet for a discussion around the power & poetry of the Mayan creation epic,The Popol Vuh.
“This talk will introduce the scope and scale of the creation myth of the Maya, the Popol Vuh, and how it came to us in textual form. It will touch briefly upon the process & challenges of creating a poetic rendering from the K’iche’, then a number of excerpts will be read to give sense of the arc of the greater work.”
More infromation:
https://plas.princeton.edu/events/michael-bazzett-power-poetry-popol-vu…
Michael Bazzett
Michael Bazzett is the author of You Must Remember This, which received the 2014 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, The Interrogation, and most recently The Echo Chamber. He is also the translator of The Popol Vuh, the first English verse translation of the Mayan creation epic, which was named a New York Times Best Book of 2018. His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Ploughshares, The Sun, and Best New Poets. He is a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and lives in Minneapolis.
By turns poetic and lucid, sinuous and accessible, this verse translation of the Mayan epic—the first of its kind, and the first in the Seedbank series—breathes new life into an essential tale.