tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post990647065797983384..comments2024-03-11T20:39:46.221+02:00Comments on vazambam: "Friends, You Drank Some Darkness"vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post-6852367418315034272011-04-18T14:09:20.432+03:002011-04-18T14:09:20.432+03:00Joe,
Your list of admirable poets--what a list! I...Joe,<br /><br />Your list of admirable poets--what a list! I shall drink slugs of retsina to toast all of them--the dark and the light. Thanks, my "tipsy" friend.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post-49548842639114381182011-04-17T20:00:30.838+03:002011-04-17T20:00:30.838+03:00"Revelation" is terrific, Vassilis. &quo..."Revelation" is terrific, Vassilis. "[T]he promising / Lyre [read also <i>liar</i>] of darkness," indeed! I admire many dark-drinking poets (Celan, Plath, Eliot, Vallejo, Trakl), but the poets I love are drunk on light: Neruda from the Odes onward, Blake, Szymborska, Paz, Ammons, Adonis. Not that I plan to stop reading the nightwalkers! It's just good to know that dawn is not only possible but inevitable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com