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Kofi Anyidoho Interview

Peter Nazareth interviews Kofi Anyidoho. Anyidoho discusses the close connection between poetry and music and the ways that language expresses metaphor, image and other communication tools. Anyidoho mentions the paradox that exists for foreign writers that when they become famous the rest of the world knows their work better than the people from their home country. Anyidoho discusses how the feeling of language often changes when it is translated.

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In: International Writing Program Archive | Poetry

Authors: Kofi Anyidoho

Date Recorded: January 01, 1998

Program: --

Format: interview

Contributors: Peter Nazareth

Topics: Literature in translation; relationship between music and poetry

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