Dec 27, 2024
The people who walk in darkness have seen a brilliant light.
— ISAIAH ⚜️The Book of Isaiah, Poets of the Bible: From Solomon’s Song of Songs to John’s Revelation, transl. by Willis Barnstone, (2017)
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The people who walk in darkness have seen a brilliant light.
— ISAIAH ⚜️The Book of Isaiah, Poets of the Bible: From Solomon’s Song of Songs to John’s Revelation, transl. by Willis Barnstone, (2017)
1 August, 2021
Afternoons with Wang Wei ⛰
Antonio Machado, "Other Songs to Guiomar", 'Border of a Dream. Selected Poems of Antonio Machado'. Spanish. Translated by Willis Barnstone
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books I’ve read in 2020:
9. sappho tr. mary barnard
10. if not, winter: fragments of sappho tr. anne carson
11. sappho and the greek lyric poets tr. willis barnstone
One big thing I understand: I know how to spit back with black venom against the man who wrongs me.
Archilochos, tr. by Willis Barnstone, from Greek Lyric Poetry; “On wrongdoers”
“A woman of taste, Eve chose to pick wisdom, and with her courage for the unknown, translated eternity into time, her word into memory, her entire self into the eternally ticking earth.
Eve has given the world her gift of translation. A translator steals and gives.
Eve is the mother of translation. She transformed fruit into knowledge, secret sperm into children, and the text of her story into us.”
—Willis Barnstone, The Poetics of Translation
Willis Barnstone. The Secret Reader: 501 Sonnets
Love shook my heart like wind on a mountain punishing oak trees
Sappho, translated by Willis Barnstone