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larryhammerMeanwhile, while I realize this isn't the message the publisher intends, what I learned from the current MS magazine is that Jeanine Garofalo is growing into even more of a cutie as she gets older.
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- 1: “love, i don’t like to see so much pain / so much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away”
- 2: “But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes.”
- 3: “here is the church here is the steeple / you were looking for saints but you only found people”
- 4: “i’d like to save every day / till eternity passes away / just to spend them with you”
- 5: “and he said to the man running the stand / ‘hey! (pom pom pom) got any grapes?’”
- 6: “i just found this smile to think about you / you’re a saturday night far from the madding crowd”
- 7: “Only the querulous cricket grieves, / And shrilling locust weaves / A song of summer dead.”
- 8: “windy has stormy eyes / that flash at the sound of lies / and windy has wings to fly”
- 9: “the stars are not wanted now: put out every one; / pack up the moon and dismantle the sun”
- 10: “dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called ‘life’”
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Date: 8 July 2003 01:37 pm (UTC)I'm currently fond of the recent If Not, Winter by Anne Carson, who's both a classicist and a poet; a paperback is due out next month. No other complete collection I've looked at has come close in the poetry. The few poems included in Richmond Lattimore's Greek Lyrics are as good as Carson's, managing to capture the meter at the same time. M.L. West's translations in Greek Lyric Poetry are nicely literal, but rarely sing — a classicist, but not a poet. I can't say I've liked any others — those of Willis Barnstone or Mary Barnard come to mind.
William Harris (my fave 'net classicist) has, btw, a couple interesting essays on Sappho on this page, including an in-depth analysis/translation of #1, the only complete poem we have. It gave me new appreciation for the difficulties of translation, and I've done some of it myself. (Not of Greek — Spanish and Latin only.)
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