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Mary Jo Bang is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently a translation of Dante's "Inferno" (2012), "The Bride of E" (2009) and "Elegy" (2007), which won the National Book Critics Circle award.

Large torches are set ablaze at the more than 400-year-old Japanese bonfire festival Taimatsu Akashi in Sukagawa, Fukushima, Japan.

A woman takes a photo of work by Japanese artist Hiroshi Shinno at Art Taipei 2012 on Thursday. The four-day exhibition, a leading art fair in Asia, draws more than 3,000 pieces from 150 art galleries internationally.

People walk in the Toledo metro station in Naples, Italy, designed by architect Oscar Tusquets Blanca as part of the "Art Station Line 1" project, which has turned stations into works of art.