Small poetry linkdump

[kaberett]

• The Word - Tony Hoagland:

  Down near the bottom
  of the crossed-out list
  of things you have to do today,
  
  between "green thread"
  and "broccoli" you find
  that you have penciled "sunlight." [...]

  
  
• Atlas - U.A. Fanthorpe & R.V. Bailey:

  There is a kind of love called maintenance,
  Which stores the WD40 and knows when to use it...

(And I imagine those of you who care already know five or six times over, but more Sappho has been discovered - a fragment and a complete poem. I can't remember whether it was language hat or language log that published a rough-and-ready translation of one of them, but. yes. Sappho.)

Comments

[sgsabbage]

I honestly thought for a split second that the start of Atlas that you posted was the fragment of Sappho, and then I was wondering how she knew about WD-40.

Should not read DW before coffee.

[kaberett]

:D

[alexseanchai]

lol!

[alexseanchai]

YOU SAW A TRANSLATION OF THE NEW SAPPHO AND YOU DID NOT LINK ME TO IT

WE ARE NO LONGER FRIENDS

(kidding, but I am highly annoyed that I now know a translation exists and it is not enough time between now and leaving for work to go find and read and roll around in it)

[kaberett]

it's been a week of 12-hour days in lab, evening Stuff, and coming down with something. cut me some slack. :-p

[alexseanchai]

:p sympathy

[spiralsheep]

Allow me to butt in for both of you. :-)

Two translations into English:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10607569/A-new-Sappho-poem-is-more-exciting-than-a-new-David-Bowie-album.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/tim-whitmarsh/sappho-poetry_b_4691297.html

Greek:

http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/Fragments/Obbink.Sappho7.draft.pdf

[kaberett]

Thank you!

[alexseanchai]

SHINY THANKS but I am at work now and cannot roll around in them properly

[cadenzamuse]

Thank you very much!

[calissa]

Thank you :)

[aella_irene]

New Sappho? Translation of? Eeee!

(I adore Ursula Fanthorpe. Her Christmas poems are, for me, an indelible part of the ritual.)

[atreic]

Great, now you've made me cry at work. In a good way :-) Yay, poems.

[kaberett]

ffff it is really lovely to hear that poems that hit me that way get other people, too <3

[liv]

I saw this and thought of you, because it's about earthquakes and loss and it's IMO rather good poetry: The music of the spheres

[batdina]

man, I wish I'd known about this before I finished the article I wrote last month on the Music of the Spheres in Zohar.

ah, well. there are always revisions. thanks for the link!

[batdina]

poetry links before shabbat always make me incredibly happy. actually, poetry links any time make me happy. so thank you!

[simont]

Sorry to strike a pedantic technical note, but the first of your links is broken – it lacks the leading http:// at the start of the href text, and therefore attempts to link me to the nonexistent (and nonsensical) http://kaberett.dreamwidth.org/poetry.dreamwidth.org/356263.html instead of http://poetry.dreamwidth.org/356263.html .

[kaberett]

Thank you for flagging that up! Mild grump about how it happened; en't supposed to have done (or been particularly possible...)

[simont]

also is it bad that those first two lines of Atlas give me a mental image of Threepio putting his arm affectionately round Artoo?

Bug report, or: I am a broken reader

[hairyears]

I wonder if there's a plugin for this: LJ and DW aren't the only sites with this issue.

[calissa]

I am way, way behind on my blog reading.

I'd read The Word before, but it is so wonderful to come back to it. Atlas was a delightful new acquaintance and one I resonate strongly with.

Thank you for sharing these.