Poems of Catullus (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

WHIGHAM, Peter

Poetry

Viking Pr

<p>This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.</p>

Poems of Meleager

Jay, Peter

University of California Press

Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands

<p>This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.</p>

Sullivan, J.P.

History & Criticism

Poetry Book Society Choice  The poems, called in English `The Love Songs of the VIth Dalai Lama', are known and loved all over Tibet. Priests being priests (lamas, lamas) have endowed them with spiritual significance, so that pious Tibetans can, if they choose, read them a little as we read `The Song of Solomon', or the poems of St John of the Cross. Ts'angs-dbyangs-rgyamts'o did write orthodox religious works, but Tibetan popular tradition does not hold that `The Love Songs' is among them. The English poems are not translations. They are not paraphrases, interpretations, or even imitations. They are simply `poems suggested by'. The Tibetan text has been taken solely as a point of departure.

The Blue Winged Bee: Love Poems of the VIth Dalai Lama

Anvil Press Poetry

(from the Afterword by Peter Whigham) Paul Portuges’s translations are unusual in that they are a reliving in modern terms of a body of ancient experience. This sounds straightforward enough; but there is a catch: the body of ancient experience can, in human terms, only be guessed at. There are no Aztec poems of which these English poems are the rendering. There is no living record, save in the most attenuated forms, of the rituals and the attitudes which are their subject. Discernment can come only through the most strenuous acts of historical imagination, working two ways: in order to find out what they—then—must have felt like, try it on oneself—now--under similar circumstances. The author and his wife, armed with various Indian manuals of childbirth, went to Tepoztlán, so that their first child, Amin, might be born there. This is not the place for biography, but Paul Portugés’s efforts at in-feeling—at feeling himself into an ambience, ultimately unknowable--can only be regarded with respect. The result is to be seen in the poems, solemn yet celebratory instances of living, translations, in the general sense of all art that “brings it off’, and in the sense of cultural transference. However, they are also translations in the narrower sense. They draw, often word for word, on Brother Bernardino de Sahagún’s records, in Aztec, of ancient Aztec ritual.

Aztec Birth: the turquoise mockingbird of light (Inklings)

Portuges, Paul

Mudborn Press

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