Because of this ambiguity, he never thought “Grief Is the Thing With Feathers” would be published, he said. When he wrote it, Porter was working full time as an editorial director at Granta, a publishing house. It was intended as an experiment: “a private investigation into form, poetry and grief,” Porter explained. Regardless, he gave the manuscript to Hannah Griffiths, a friend who was working as an editor at Faber and Faber. Since then, “Grief Is the Thing With Feathers” has been translated into 27 languages and adapted for the stage by the Irish playwright Enda Walsh.

Source: International New York Times September 09, 2021 13:07 UTC