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larryhammerChuffery abounding. Today's mail brought a contributor's copy of Rhymes for Adults, a chapbook anthology edited by Mary Alexandra Agner. A garland of some of the best young formalists of today, including A.E. Stallings,1 Peg Duthie, and Mike Snider. It's got sonnets of workplace seduction and existential depression, ballads about grown children living at home and the love-lives of endangered species, even a ballade with engineers watching a Hooters photo shoot. A sharp collection of strong, witty poetry.
My contribution is translations of seven dirty Latin epigrams from the Priapea:
To give one example. Classical smut, replete with talking ithyphallic statues, blushing virgins, lusty matrons, and a justifiably unhappy apple tree.
You can purchase a copy here -- just $5 each, a tasty meal of a poetic deal.
1. I'm trying not to fanboy over being in a chapbook with A.E. Stallings. Is there any way to squee in a professional manner?
2. Obliquis quid me, pathicae, spectatis ocellis? / non stat in inguinibus mentula tenta meis. / quae tamen exanimis nunc est et inutile lignum, / utilis haec, aram si dederitis, erit. (Buecheler-Heraeus #73)
---L.
My contribution is translations of seven dirty Latin epigrams from the Priapea:
Why look, you eager girls, with eyes askance?
My prick does not stand hard and tall, but loose.
But though I have a lifeless wooden lance,
Give me your altar—then I'll be of use.2
To give one example. Classical smut, replete with talking ithyphallic statues, blushing virgins, lusty matrons, and a justifiably unhappy apple tree.
You can purchase a copy here -- just $5 each, a tasty meal of a poetic deal.
1. I'm trying not to fanboy over being in a chapbook with A.E. Stallings. Is there any way to squee in a professional manner?
2. Obliquis quid me, pathicae, spectatis ocellis? / non stat in inguinibus mentula tenta meis. / quae tamen exanimis nunc est et inutile lignum, / utilis haec, aram si dederitis, erit. (Buecheler-Heraeus #73)
---L.
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Date: 15 June 2006 05:08 am (UTC)I must say, that word collatoris looks and sounds suspiciously anatomical after reading your epigrams. If I didn't know more Latin, I might be blushing.
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Date: 15 June 2006 02:22 pm (UTC)(Hadn't even thought of that.)
---L.
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Date: 15 June 2006 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 15 June 2006 12:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 15 June 2006 02:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 15 June 2006 02:47 pm (UTC)"Pathicae" is a nice little piece of smuttery all by itself. (=submissive partners in gay sex)
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Date: 15 June 2006 03:05 pm (UTC)---L.