The more they stay the same. Here are three ancient Egyptian poems from the World poetry anthology. You know, poetry hasn't really gotten any better in the last 3,000 years.
84, Charing Cross Road (for Eileen Lavery)
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84, Charing Cross Road (for Eileen Lavery) I saw you, Helene, after all the
bookshops had vanished,Your wrists thin below the raveling cuffs of your
sweate...
4 days ago
3 comments:
I have that anthology, too. For some reason I'd placed a marker on "Six Love Poems" by Ono no Komachi (p 275), but I can't remember why.
I don't mean to imply that poetry has gotten any worse. Ono no Komachi's poems are as good as anything in the anthology (though I prefer the versions that Jane Hirshfield did in The Ink Dark Moon).
I'll get right on that.
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