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.
Viejo sol, por favor | Please, Old Sun
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He aquí una revisión de uno de los primeros poemas que intenté escribir en
español hace unos años. Hoy hace suficiente calor como para arreglarlo y
publica...
3 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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