poetry

Book Reviews

• David Aberbach: Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy, 750-500 BCE
  - the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
• Ariel Bloch, Chana Bloch: The Song of Songs*
  - a compelling translation of the great Hebrew love poem
• Breyten Breytenbach: All One Horse*
  - dream fables and surreal paintings
• François Cheng, Jerome P. Seaton: Chinese Poetic Writing
  With an Anthology of Tang Poetry
• Mahmoud Darwish: Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
  - "the premier poetic voice of the Palestinian people"
• John DuVal, Raymond Eichmann: Cuckolds, Clerics, and Countrymen
  Medieval French Fabliaux
• David Ferry: Gilgamesh
  A New Rendering in English Verse
• William Fitzgerald: How to Read a Latin Poem
  If You Can't Read Latin Yet
• John L. Foster: Love Songs of the New Kingdom*
  - ancient Egyptian love poems
• Andrew George: The Epic of Gilgamesh*
• Robin D. Gill: Rise, Ye Sea Slugs!*
  - 900 sea cucumber haiku, with translations and commentary
• David Hawkes: A Little Primer of Tu Fu*
  - an introduction to classical Chinese poetry
• Seamus Heaney: Beowulf*
  - an effective verse translation
• David Hinton: The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan
  - nature poetry by the great Tang poet
• Michael Hofmann: Twentieth-Century German Poetry*
  - a dual language anthology
• Peter Lawrence: Don Juan in Melanesia
• Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home*
  - fictional ethnography: stories and poetry from a far-future California
• Herbert Mason: Gilgamesh
  A Verse Narrative
• David R. McCann: Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture
  Volume 1: 2008; Volume 8: 2015
• Stephen Mitchell: Gilgamesh
  A New English Version
• Michael Molasky, Steve Rabson: Southern Exposure
  Modern Japanese Literature From Okinawa
• Karthika Naïr: Until the Lions: Echoes From The Mahabharata*
  - poetry with subaltern perspectives within the Indian epic
• Don Paterson: 101 Sonnets*
  From Shakespeare to Heaney
• Apollonios Rhodios: The Argonautika
  The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece
• Lao Tzu, Ursula K. Le Guin: Tao Te Ching
  - "true words aren't charming; charming words aren't true"
• Tarjei Vesaas: The Hills Reply
  - prose poetry, coming of age in Norwegian landscapes
• Fiona Waters: A Corner of a Foreign Field
  The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War
• Burton Watson: Chinese Rhyme-Prose
  Poems in the Fu Form from the Han and Six Dynasties Periods
• Yi Mun-yol: The Poet*
  - a marginal poet in 19th century Korea

I have written three poems that I feel up to putting online.