anagignosko:cinque-spotted:wwnorton:FIRST LINES FROM NEW BOOKS OUT TODAY: SEPTEMBER 10, 2012“The fir
anagignosko:cinque-spotted:wwnorton:FIRST LINES FROM NEW BOOKS OUT TODAY: SEPTEMBER 10, 2012“The first to die was ProtesilausA focused man who hurried to darknessWith forty black ships leaving the land behindMen sailed with him from those flower-lit cliffsWhere the grass gives growth to everythingPyrasus Iton Pteleus AntronHe died in mid-air jumping to be first ashoreThere was his house half-builtHis wife rushed out clawing her facePodarcus his altogether less impressive brotherTook over command but that was long agoHe’s been in the black earth now for thousands of year.”Memorial: A Version of Homer’s Iliad by Alice OswaldA “version” of the Iliad in which Oswald translates every death—and only the deaths—so that the poem becomes what the poem is. Oswald has stated she wants to translates the poem’s enargeia, what she calls “the bright unbearable reality” of the Iliad. This is not the poem that starts “μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεὰ”. Menis is not the key word to this poem; the rage of Achilles passes by like a ghost. The gods and goddesses keep to the margins. What remains, then, is the song, and the list of the dead.I WANT THIS LIKE BURNINGI have wanted this book for at least a year since I heard about it, oh god -- source link
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