tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post5087323170379669416..comments2023-10-28T03:14:44.519-07:00Comments on Calhouns Can(n)ons: Your Sunday PoemNewsstandGreghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04099049885765768069noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-55682034026061389572012-03-07T14:05:46.594-08:002012-03-07T14:05:46.594-08:00Nice poem. My favorite one (short one that is) is...Nice poem. My favorite one (short one that is) is Ozymandias http://caroleschatter.blogspot.co.nz/2011/12/ozymandias-percy-bysshe-shelley.htmlCarolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16985978221627051493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-59269244628418562542012-03-06T08:36:10.453-08:002012-03-06T08:36:10.453-08:00She is such an extraordinary poet. or was, I shou...She is such an extraordinary poet. or was, I should say. Her death is a terrible loss to the world of poetry.Churadogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701649330085709021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-29904788426316312582012-03-06T08:35:01.416-08:002012-03-06T08:35:01.416-08:00Reading Fog’s comment…
I one recent Calhoun Sunday...Reading Fog’s comment…<br />I one recent Calhoun Sunday, I was looking for Szymborska on Google, but found only a page of the Polish original<br />So I put the “woven tale of a dog” in Polish into "Google Translate" to see what would happen-<br />It was a very credible result, quite lyrical and evocative too, so I cleaned it up and went looking for the official translation.<br />When I found it, I discovered that my Polish source version was truncated. There was much much more to this dog’s story. The Google translation still held, but my clean-up moved it out of context. It would had been enough to have seen the accompanying picture - it was not about the dog, it was as much about his <a href="http://www.terrierman.com/hitlerterrier.bmp" rel="nofollow">master.</a><br /><br /><i>Excerpted from the Annuals of “Lost in Translation”. </i>Alon Perlmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00155776897189144501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-39898622601972120242012-03-05T12:12:56.196-08:002012-03-05T12:12:56.196-08:00Hi FOG, if you find the great obituary that The Ec...Hi FOG, if you find the great obituary that The Economist had a couple of months back for her, you will be amazed at her life and their excellent writing of it.Sewertoons AKA Lynette Tornatzkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04501351678541088868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-47453944674051243302012-03-05T08:28:30.973-08:002012-03-05T08:28:30.973-08:00Love it, great poem indeed.
My 84 year old mind r...Love it, great poem indeed.<br /><br />My 84 year old mind resembles that poem more frequently these days.<br /><br />Read it to my Slavonic speaking wife and she sez "dobrah wiersza" (good poem).<br /><br />Then of course we had to look up the author and learn more about her.<br /><br />ThanxFOGSWAMPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14094960232554363985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-74097862058626413142012-03-05T06:44:30.260-08:002012-03-05T06:44:30.260-08:00Oh, for God's sake, Anonymous. GET OFF the po...Oh, for God's sake, Anonymous. GET OFF the poetry section with your sewer crap, at least. Jeeze, how obsessively inappropriate. Jeeze. You people are nuts.Churadogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701649330085709021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-78068887338830659662012-03-04T14:08:09.300-08:002012-03-04T14:08:09.300-08:00GREAT poem Ann, thanks for finding and posting it....GREAT poem Ann, thanks for finding and posting it.Sewertoons AKA Lynette Tornatzkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04501351678541088868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-38733557355218007432012-03-04T10:05:46.063-08:002012-03-04T10:05:46.063-08:00Memory that dogs you fretfully, like a nervous old...Memory that dogs you fretfully, like a nervous old lap dog. This old gal is as deep and self knowing as the old eastern philosophers. Perhaps it doesn’t lose anything in translation. Thank you Ann<br /><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13758431&postID=5896207762727738690&isPopup=true" rel="nofollow">The sane appreciate the power of forgetfulness, It is only the insane, whose memory is so keen, as to remember those things that didn’t even happen.”</a></i><<br />But that belongs elsewhere.Alon Perlmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00155776897189144501noreply@blogger.com