War Music by Christopher Logue --- An Account of Homer's "Iliad"
One of my favorite unconventional translations, alongside Stephen Berg’s With Akhmatova At The Black Gates and Dark Elderberry Branch by Kaminsky & Valentine....
One of my favorite unconventional translations, alongside Stephen Berg’s With Akhmatova At The Black Gates and Dark Elderberry Branch by Kaminsky & Valentine....
He screws all the girls he can find...
C.P. Cavafy, 1919...
Gillian Weiss, 2007...
Federico Garcia Lorca, 1922...
I’m a fucking dork
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1846...
Jane Kenyon, 1978...
Anna Akhmatova, 1921...
Take this kiss upon the brow!...
Lay down these words...
There is a war in the distance...
And by now it has almost lost its scent---...
I think about this one a lot....
She could make the night moan....
I stand (archers ready)...
Why should I have been surprised?...
Hard to say what the best way is to typeset this in markdown -- but below is a poem I dearly love, by World War I poet Roland Leighton as a test....
All Greece hates...
“Hope” is the thing with feathers —...
Across the dunes, in the waning light,...
I wrote a comment recently in response to a senator describing himself as “pro-choice” in defense of his refusing to repeal child marriage statutes. I recognized a poetic rhythm and have adapted it to hopefully fit as a submission here....