This is Not a Poem: Translations of Rilke's The Swan with Jason Stoneking

This week on "This is Not a Poem," American poet, diarist, and performance artist Jason Stoneking discusses the author who perhaps most inspired him: Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke.

Now based in Paris, Stoneking speaks with host Elliot KB about admiring a poet whose language you do not speak, relearning how to be a writer outside your mother tongue, and the contrasts between Robert Bly's and Stephen Mitchell’s translations of "The Swan."