J. Simon Harris

Writer, poet, translator of Dante.

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In the middle of the journey of our life, I PUBLISHED MY DANTE'S INFERNO TRANSLATION!!!

https://t.co/MZht6Lizje

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@EntradaBooks My translation of Dante's Inferno. My novel is a close second.

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Perseids Pronunciation https://t.co/psNKxTalXP

[Aaron Poochigian @Poochigian]

I have a love-poem out in "The National Review."

It's my last one (promise) and my best, I think.

I'm curious to find out what you think of it:

https://t.co/EQ71guv9c0

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@Dante_Aligheri

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Well I opened a submission response email just now, fully expecting a rejection... but instead, one of my poems was selected!!! I will of course share a link when the publication is released. Super excited!

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Shel Silverstein's observations on ChatGPT.

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@Poochigian "He was really good at speling."

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@GalleyBeggars This is not a question of grammar, it is a question of meter.

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@amatastudies Dante.

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@jodyjsperling I'd tell you but I'd have to kill you.

[Rick Delaney @RickRain04]

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@markscarbrough "Close but no cigar", yeah that makes sense. I'm imagining getting to the afterlife and recieving that message: "Ooh, so close!"

So many great characters in Purgatory, and so many puzzles. Inferno is the rest of the Comedy on training wheels, in some sense.

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@markscarbrough Belacqua as a parody of the contemplative life. I love it. And does that make the philosophers in Limbo parodies of it as well?

As for Manfred, I see him more as another way a person can be hesitant, even someone who appears invested in action. What do you think?

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@tinakover The element? 🤔😉

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@marcadimartino That's one thing I like about translation. When nothing original is coming to me, I'll work on a translation.

But on that note, yes, I've mostly been working on translations, if you see what I mean.

[Daniel Mendelsohn @DAMendelsohnNYC]

“A person is not likely to be a good reader of the Iliad if he doesn’t enjoy lingering over the Catalogue of Ships…”

Roberto Calasso, “The Ruin of Kasch”

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I'm barely on Twitter anymore, but still occasionally check it. Seems like they really want me to follow Elon Musk (it keeps recommending his account). I'm sure it's just the algorithms naturally making suggestions...

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@JennyMitchellGo Long narrative poetry is my favorite kind of poetry. My top three are all really old:
Divine Comedy (Dante)
Iliad (Homer)
Odyssey (also Homer)

In English, you'll want to find a poetic translation, of course 🙂

[Alicia E. Stallings @ae_stallings]

@TATFS Is there is a better picture book opening than? "The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him 'WILD THING! ' and Max said 'I'LL EAT YOU UP! ' so he was sent to bed without eating anything." The wolf suit!

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@RickRain04 @markscarbrough Yeah, seemingly just Dante, since we see new souls arrive but don't see any of them do the reed ritual. But I don't think it's made explicit.

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@markscarbrough I just listened to the episode where Dante encounters Manfred. The episode was really well put together (as is the scene it covers). I like your notion of tying Manfred to Muhammad and Ali via their wounds (and the history of Frederick's court).
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