Reread this small (28 pages) book last night. I read this last some time in the 1980’s when I was binging on Pound. It is similar to the “translations” he did for the poems in Cathay, like “The River Merchant’s Wife.” Imagistic with a lot implied connotations. It made me pull two other books off the shelf this morning (not by Pound): The Poems of Catullus, and an anthology of Ancient Egyptian Literature.–The joys of having a rather extensive and eclectic personal library.
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