[ ] [ ]
[ ] [ ] damn it all
[ ] [ ] Startled that [we?] are
[ ] [ ] only now
Starting [where?]
To realize just how
[ ] [ ]
Moving this all is, [isn’t] it
Too bad we can’t
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
Put it in reverse
Thursday, September 5, 2019
75-Year-Old Pedestrian Versifier Temporarily Stopped In His Tracks By 7th Century BC Fragments Of Archilochos
[ ] [ ]
[ ] [ ] damn it all
[ ] [ ] Startled that [we?] are
[ ] [ ] only now
Starting [where?]
To realize just how
[ ] [ ]
Moving this all is, [isn’t] it
Too bad we can’t
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
Put it in reverse
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Good reference to Archilochos. Always good to be reminded to [re]read the greats.
ReplyDeleteThought(s) about time, wonderfully expressed, visibly pleasing [too]. Congratulations on writing another marvelous poem!
Thanks again, my old friend but if anybody deserves to be congratulated, it should be Guy Davenport, whose 1964 "Carmina Archilochi" I once stumbled upon in a used bookstore and promptly gobbled up--great work by an immensely talented guy and not just as a translator. The first link is to one of Archilochos' longest poem and the second to some information about Guy, which I'm almost positive you are already familiar with.
ReplyDeletehttps://ireaddeadpeople.wordpress.com/2014/03/23/archilochus-be-bold/
https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/Guy_Davenport