"the sounds of wild geese / crying as they cross over, / each night after autumn night"

[larryhammer]

This past week, I hosted another round at poetry. I went in without any theme, starting with some bookmarks I'd saved to share here, and ended up with another mini-anthology with an arc:

Returning to Songshan Mountain, Wang Wei (trans. Mark Alexander)
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things, Robert Frost
"Of this fair volume which we World do name," William Drummond
The Poet and the Rose, John Gay
Kokinshu #213, Ôshikôchi no Mitsune
from Tamburlaine the Great, part 1, act v, scene 1, Christopher Marlowe
Drinking Wine, Tao Qian (trans. Mark Alexander)

---L.

Comments

[jjhunter]

I very much enjoyed them. :o)

By and by, if you have a chance to stop by POETREE @ Dreamwidth at some point today, the 'FONSFAQ long and serial poetry' post and the anon poll re: 'Diction's Dicty Delights' (see Sunday Picnic comment for the link) both seem like they'd be right up your alley...

[larryhammer]

The long and serial poetry thing IS up my alley, but I can't really participate except from the audience, because Life Stuff.

---l.

[jjhunter]

Life Stuff definitely takes precedence (hope it's good Life Stuff...?); we're not planning on closing it any time soon, so if you do end up having a bit of time sometime in July, I for one very much enjoying hearing what you have to say.

ETA: and this is what I get for filtering POETREE stuff into a different email folder! I thought your reply to the 'Is All Long Poetry Epic Poetry?' prompt was amazing - I got half way through and immediately pulled up my local library catalog to start requesting titles. Are there any translations in particular that you'd recommend re: Virgil's Georgics and Lucretius's De rerum natura?

[larryhammer]

Not good, but finally getting better.

For Georgics, I don't. For De rerum natura, the current Penguin Classics edition by A.E. Stallings. (Stallings is my favorite poet my age.)

---L.