"white peacocks, evensong"
Anonymous, Šalamun, Mathys, Williams, Akhmatova
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Korean figure (tr. by W.S. Merwin):
Tomaž Šalamun (tr. from Slovenian by Brian Henry):
Ted Mathys:
William Carlos Williams:
Anna Akhmatova (tr. from Russian by Stanley Kunitz):
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Stitt / Dizzy Gillespie, “The Eternal Triangle,” rec. December 19, 1957:
I translated the Akhmatova poem, it's always interesting to see different translations. For example, more true to the Russian, the last line:
"and I was his wife."
Trinity, all good. A prompt. Good, even better to read Ted Mathys again.