I had to cheat to find a poet with poems in English. In spite of Dante, "D" is not so usual for first poets names.
Cecil Day Lewis
http://www.poemhunter.com/cecil-day-lewis-2/
I had to cheat to find a poet with poems in English. In spite of Dante, "D" is not so usual for first poets names.
Cecil Day Lewis
http://www.poemhunter.com/cecil-day-lewis-2/
Last edited by Danik 2016; 08-24-2016 at 09:43 PM.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Interesting that he used sight rhymes mixed in with his rhyme scheme for "Come, live with me and be my love". I also liked "A Hard Frost".
Luís de Camões... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luís_de_Camões
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tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Uau!-Here a translation of the great portuguese epic:
http://sacred-texts.com/neu/lus/index.htm
Cecília Meireles
https://allpoetry.com/Cecilia-Meireles
Last edited by Danik 2016; 08-23-2016 at 09:50 AM.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Thanks. I'm trying to order Landeg White's translation of Luís de Camões' epic "the Lusiads" for my Kindle... but it says order pending for some reason... only $7.55 USD. I'll check my Kindle in a bit to see if I have to bless the transaction or something. In "Portrait" Cecília employs being lost in mirrors - a theme I've explored a few times. "Motive" shows her sombre side, though she claims otherwise. I don't get the poem "Guitar" at all.
Matthew Rohrer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Rohrer
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
The translation by Richard Burton is in the net(free pdf).
"Guitar" is a mystery in Portuguese too. It seems to refer to a very specific event or person and to her depressive "sombre side". But the connection between dagger and guitar escapes me.
Raul Bopp
http://www.antoniomiranda.com.br/poe...raul_bopp.html
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
My eBook appeared on my Kindle. Re:Raul Bopp: Quite enjoyable: "XV Sky very blue./White little heron flew and flew.../It thought the lake was way above./Heavy dampness. Light hurting the eyes./The sun seems like a little mirror./Dissolving voices:/A lone enormous bird crosses the pregnant horizon."... a childlike quality with the exception of the repeated reference to Queen Luzía's daughter of which I can not find a reference.
Bai Juyi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai_Juyi... Poems: http://www.chinese-poems.com/bo.html
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tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Congrats to your Camões e-book.
These Chinese poems are beautiful!Re: Cobra Norato- The poems combines folclore from the Amazonian rain forest (the animal stories and the stories of the humans that are transformed into animals and back) with the European knights tradition. The hero must free and marry a princess but the daughter of Queen Luzia is an invention.The naiv aspects and the liberty that is taken with language are characteristics of the Anthopofagic Movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manife...trop%C3%B3fago
João Cabral de Melo Neto
http://sibila.com.br/english/joao-ca...melo-neto/8989 (very long)
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"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Ai! it's a lot to take in... saving for a reread.
Mary Oliver... http://peacefulrivers.homestead.com/maryoliver.html
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Read "The Geese" by Mary Oliver and liked it but I need more time too.Each poet builds a world of his/her own and one needs time to enter into it and enjoy it. Therefore I´m going to post some celebrities from other areas before coming back to literature.
Oscar Schmidt (Brazilian basketball player)
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Stephen Curry
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
César Cielo (Swimmer)
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Cesar Chavez - humanitarian
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Carlos Chagas-bacteriologist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Chagas
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Brilliant man; it's a shame politics stopped him from receiving a Nobel.
Charles Babbage... http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi879.htm
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Burt Lancaster
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
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