{"id":154573,"date":"2021-09-14T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=154573"},"modified":"2021-09-14T14:03:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:03:20","slug":"redux-no-human-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/14\/redux-no-human-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: No Human Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dkY3AH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_154587\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6806\/the-art-of-poetry-no-100-ishmael-reed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154587\" class=\"wp-image-154587 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/reed2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/reed2.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/reed2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/reed2-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ishmael Reed, 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week at <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re marking the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante\u2019s death on September 14. Read on for Ishmael Reed\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6806\/the-art-of-poetry-no-100-ishmael-reed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, Hans Magnus Enzensberger\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6829\/identity-check-hans-magnus-enzensberger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Identity Check<\/a>,\u201d Evie Shockley\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7392\/ex-patria-evie-shockley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ex patria<\/a>,\u201d and a <a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2069\/inferno-canto-xxviii-dante-alighieri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">translation<\/a> of Dante Alighieri himself by Robert Pinsky.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/flex\/TPR\/MAIN\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<span id=\"more-154455\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6806\/the-art-of-poetry-no-100-ishmael-reed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ishmael Reed, The Art of Poetry No. 100<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 218 (Fall 2016)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With literature you can condemn the powerful, and you can critique the power\u00adful. Of course, Dante paid for it. He was never able to return to Florence. He died in exile. He endured a lot to speak his mind. They tell us, Don\u2019t write about politics. You know, because the politics is aimed at them. But Dante had a political office! And some of those characters in Dante\u2019s <em>Inferno<\/em> are political opponents of his. The same with Shakespeare. His work was political. I was reading <em>The Merchant of Venice<\/em> the other day and it includes one of the most devastating antislavery arguments ever written. So I don\u2019t know where they get the bourgeois idea that art shouldn\u2019t be political.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_154589\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6829\/identity-check-hans-magnus-enzensberger\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154589\" class=\"wp-image-154589 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/enzensberger.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/enzensberger.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/enzensberger-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/enzensberger-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the third Canto of Dante\u2019s <em>Inferno<\/em>. Photo: Mario Mancini. CC BY-SA 3.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6829\/identity-check-hans-magnus-enzensberger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Identity Check<\/a><br \/>\nBy Hans Magnus Enzensberger<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 77 (Winter\u2013Spring 1980)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is not Dante.<br \/>\nThis is a photograph of Dante.<br \/>\nThis is a film showing an actor who pretends to be Dante.<br \/>\nThis is a film with Dante in the role of Dante.<br \/>\nThis is a man who dreams of Dante.<br \/>\nThis is a man called Dante who is not Dante.<br \/>\nThis is a man who apes Dante.<br \/>\nThis is a man who passes himself off as Dante.<br \/>\nThis is a man who dreams that he is Dante.<br \/>\nThis is a man who is the spitt\u2019n image of Dante.<br \/>\nThis is a wax figure of Dante.<br \/>\nThis is a changeling, a double, an identical twin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_154592\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7392\/ex-patria-evie-shockley\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154592\" class=\"wp-image-154592 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shockley.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shockley.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shockley-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/shockley-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dante\u2019s<em> The Divine Comedy<\/em>. Photo: Sailko. CC BY 3.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7392\/ex-patria-evie-shockley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ex patria<\/a><br \/>\nBy Evie Shockley<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 228 (Spring 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a mythology can ask <em>why is winter so much greener than spring, even clouded in white?<\/em> the icicles trail as far down the evergreens as they can, but don\u2019t keep the wind from brushing snow and sun across the mountain on the same day. the inferno is always burning, women and men going up in flames.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_154594\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2069\/inferno-canto-xxviii-dante-alighieri\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154594\" class=\"wp-image-154594 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/dante.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/dante.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/dante-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/dante-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copies of <em>The Divine Comedy<\/em>. Photo: Phyrexian, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2069\/inferno-canto-xxviii-dante-alighieri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inferno: Canto XXVIII<\/a><br \/>\nBy Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Pinsky<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 123 (Summer 1992)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who could find words, even in free-running prose,<br \/>\nTo describe the wounds I saw, in all their horror\u2014<br \/>\nTelling it over as many times as you choose,<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certain no human tongue could take the measure<br \/>\nOf those enormities. Our speech and mind,<br \/>\nStraining to comprehend them, flail, and falter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed the above, don\u2019t forget to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/flex\/TPR\/MAIN\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a>! In addition to four print issues per year, you\u2019ll also receive complete digital access to our sixty-eight years\u2019 worth of archives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we\u2019ve lowered the paywall on work by Ishmael Reed, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Evie Shockley, and Dante Alighieri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redux"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Redux: No Human Tongue by The Paris Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 14, 2021 \u2013 This week, we\u2019ve lowered the paywall on 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