Very powerful:
"the siege is taking a long time our enemies have to take turns / nothing
unites them apart from the desire for our destruction."
On Jan 1, 2008 5:10 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I just read this review and find it pretty convincing, though initially I
> assumed it would be hard to surpass Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott:
>
> http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/014_01/205
>
>
> Barry
>
>
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 10:35:09 -0500, Robin Hamilton
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >It's maybe worth noting that about a quarter of the translations are
> >republished from the [excellent] ones which Penguin Books issued in the
> >sixties, and not by whoever's named here as translator. It isn't
> entirely
> >clear from this edition what happened.
> >
> >I did a title-comparison when the volume came out, but dunno what
> happened
> >to it.
> >
> >Definitely worth buying, whatever.
> >
> >Robin
> >
> >> I've read him in Poetry magazine I think, quite evocative
> >>
> >> KS
> >>
> >>> - is a review by Barry Hill of a new Z Herbert Collected Poems in
> trans.
> >>>
> >>> Hill enthuses. Is this the book I should buy?
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