>Capital Accounts
>(Worked from the Chinese of Lu Zhaolin [635-84])
what i really liked about this poem, Trevor, which i was thinking before i
got to the end was precisely how it does what you say: 'While some parts
are almost literal, I've allowed myself freedoms elsewhere to deal with
sections that would otherwise need heavy annotation. Since it's a
seventh-century original whose 'action' is set five or more centuries
earlier, I thought some modern analogues mightn't be out of place.'
what i was enjoying was the way it began so locked into its own discourse
(of the past, in translation), & then slyly slid into variations on modern
demotic, & definite allusions to what's going down (me friedn Stephen
Scobie was amrking exams while here, & came across 2 (!) references to
allusions 'embedded' in the texts being discussed...
doug
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he said the President said
he would not kill anyone
anymore and the way he would not kill
would be to let the killers kill
and then he would not be a killer
Eli Mandel (circa 1970)
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