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Dale Smith is as an Associate Professor of English at Ryerson University, Toronto, and is the author, most recently, of Slow Poetry in America (2014) and Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960 (2012).
A new translation of the Aeneid revives its power as a spoken text.
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