"but it hurts, the mirrors closing in"
Akhmatova, Sheehan, Huntington, Valentine, Catullus
Anna Akhmatova (tr. from Russian by Judith Hemschemeyer):
Julie Sheehan:
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Cynthia Huntington:
Jean Valentine:
Catullus (tr. from Latin mine):
I hate and I love. Why do I do this, perhaps you ask.
I don’t know, but I feel it being done and I am tormented.
Grachan Moncur III, “Love and Hate,” rec. 1964:
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These poems are just what I needed to read this morning. What a good theme hate is.
In poems, hate is painfully equal although different in experience whether it is constructed moving from or to addressee or addresser.