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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Epic, Fiction, Poetry, Surrealism  0 Comments

November 11, 2022October 12, 2021

Gunslinger – Edward Dorn

People always talk about the great American Novel. But what about the Great American Epic Poem?

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Epic, Fiction, Mythology, Poetry  0 Comments

April 24, 2020March 29, 2020

The Aeneid – Virgil – Robert Fitzgerald (translator)

Epic poems are a medium well out of date, but Fitzgerald’s translation seems to hold a lot of fidelity to them.

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Non-Fiction, Poems, Poetry  0 Comments

October 18, 2019June 4, 2019

City of a Hundred Fires – Richard Blanco

Reading ‘City of a Hundred Fires’ mostly brought to my attention how ill-equipped I am to really read poetry intelligibly.

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