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Nothing can beat this marvellous translation of Pangur Ban
Pangur Bán From the ninth-century Irish poem Pangur Bán and I at work, Adepts, equals, cat and clerk: His whole instinct is to hunt, Mine to free the meaning pent. More than loud acclaim, I love Books, silence, thought, my alcove. Happy for me, Pangur Bán Child-plays round some mouse's den. Truth to tell, just ...
Posted to Poems by maggie300 on October 9, 2009
Re: Says A Lot With Little
False or not, I agree that ''poet-as-condenser'' is a great concept. In fact, ''Here Is New York,'' E. B. White's essay/love poem to the city, made a similar point: ''A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island ...
Posted to Poems by GarySlater on September 4, 2009
Louise Gluck, A Village Life, New poems,
These are some more poems I got a hold of from the upcoming collection, out in a few days I believe. The form is not how they appear in the book, I am quite sure. From what I have read of them, the poems are very much unlike the poems from her most recent collection,Averno, though similar perhaps to the title poem ''Averno''. But I really hear ...
Posted to Poems by FrankRolf on August 29, 2009
hyperbole.
For the life of me, i couldn't think of that word. I'm coming to some disappointing conclusions about our new freditor: he's either not very well-read, or he's prone to favoritism...or both. Apparently he deems this kind of obscenity warranted, while the use of obscenity in what had to be a well-written critique is not. I've read your ...
Posted to Fraywatch by catnapping on August 1, 2009
You deleted the legitimate critique of a poem?
Why would you delete a critique from Zeus-boy? I gather it was a negative one. Negative critiques are as necessary as the positive. And I'm sure Jack would welcome any comments from someone as gifted and skilled as Zeus-boy. http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/thread/2931207.aspx ...
Posted to Fraywatch by catnapping on July 31, 2009
Then Jeremy isn't making proper use of the filters.
At the bottom the page, you can filter for authors. (I sorted in ascending order so you'd be right on top.) We're fortunate to have you here. I can't think of a proper superlative to describe how phenomenal your posts are...so how 'bout a DAYAM, deez is GOOD: Monte Roraima ~ Insectivory ~ Venus Flytrap ~ Criminal Plant Posted by Zeus-Boy, ...
Posted to Best of the Fray by catnapping on July 31, 2009
Re: Where Once Famed Babel's Gardens Grew
I ought to be ashamed for my forgetfulness...thanks for the refresher! Not long ago, I visited the British Museum. My favorite parts had to do with Mesopotamia, and in particular with the cache of musical instruments found at Ur (here, here, here, here and here; slideshow of the whole set of trip photos, here). You probably remember how the ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 26, 2009
Re: The Photon - An Ode to Light
How about ''foresaw'' or, perhaps better yet, ''foreknew''? Dr. Wheeler's exact phrase was that the Universe ''someknow knew we were coming'', and after looking at the online tangle of cosmological arguments revolving around that idea just now, I figure that for the sake of the poem, it would be best to not go too far beyond that. So far as I ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 26, 2009
Re: The Migrant - Comments welcome
In reply to a concern pointed out elsewhere, what could the narrator have done about the situation? He had no ''pull'' with the policeman, let alone the ability to usurp his authority. Yes, it would be a nice ''morality play'' for the narrator to try anyway, but it wouldn't be true to life. There is such a thing as trying to grab a passing dog by ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 26, 2009
Re: denny with a "d"
I LIKE that poem, denny. I really think you should focus on original poetry revolving around such themes. If (as Sir Arthur Eddington said) ''the Universe is not only queerer than we imagine, it's queerer than we can imagine,'' then surely there is a place for your slightly askew perspective in trying to imagine it poetically. And this is surely ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2009

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