The Paradox of Ekphrasis
On the visual in the verbal, the timeless in the temporal.
On the visual in the verbal, the timeless in the temporal.
Metrical Martin Luther.
The afterlife of a phrase about death.
A new translation of Henrik Harder.
A poetic version of the "Song of Simeon," based on the fourth-century Latin poet Juvencus.
On translating poetry.
An epigram on the love and fear of God.
Here is the seventh poem in Georg Fabricius’s hymn cycle. Here is a link to the sixth. The meter and rhyme-scheme is the same as the others. The Latin text:…
A limerick about how the White House has managed to make misleading the public not just bad, but boring.
Today (March 26) is Robert Frost’s birthday. (This “modern” poet was born only nine years after the conclusion of the Civil War. History is bizarre.) A while back, I started…
