From: "Matthew Davis" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Crowley's The Translator
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 14:26:21 +0100

> > 1. The source seems to be Auden's famous quote that poets are the
> > unacknowledged legislators of reality. Here, this seems to be
interpreted as
> > poet=saint or poet=angel.

The "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" quote is from
Shelley, not Auden. "Poet" in Greek means "maker", so poets _are_ the
creators of our world, in as much they shape our understanding of them.
Besides Nabokov and Brodsky, I also wonder how much Robert Frost might be an
influence - at the time of the Cuba Crisis I think he made some notable
comment but I can't remember what. But then again copies of "The Translator"
haven't even begun appearing over in the UK, so what do I know.

> > I haven't seen this review yet (was it in the NYTBR, or in the daily
paper?)

Reviews of Crowley's Translator so far:

Locus, February 2002 (Faren Miller) - not online

Book Magazine, March/April 2002 (James Schiff)
http://www.bookmagazine.com/issue21/capsules.shtml#Crowley

New York Times, March 13, 2002 (Richard Eder)
http://query.nytimes.com/search/full-page?res=9B01E0DE1539F930A25750C0A9649C
8B63

Christian Science Monitor, March 21, 2002 (Ron Charles)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0321/p15s02-bogn.html

Salon, March 21, 2002 (Laura Miller)
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/03/21/crowley/index.html?x

Washington Post Book World, March 24, 2002 (Howard Norman)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A2
76-2002Mar21¬Found=true

San Francisco Chronicle, March 24, 2002 (Miriam Wolf)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/03/24/RV
128730.DTL

Booksense magazine has an interview with Crowley about "The Translator"
http://www.booksense.com/people/archive/crowleyjohn.jsp



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