Macumbeira
a Reader's diary
Sunday, October 25, 2026
Polýain’ Odyseû,
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How does poetry work ? How does a modernist poet craft his phrases, his lines ? Hugh Kenner in the first chapter of the Pound Era demonstr...
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
A.I. : "Ask yourself"
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While researching subjects from Kenner's Pound Era, my prompts requested such details, that artificial intelligence exasperated redire...
Friday, August 8, 2025
Italiensehnsucht
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Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn, Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen glühn, Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht, ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
There is too much writing and not enough reading
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"Er wordt teveel geschreven en te weinig gelezen". Frits van Oostrom in an interview with Garrelt Verhoeven in Online Boekensalo...
Sunday, November 24, 2024
He felt quite sure that he would never die.
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"Is it difficult to die Daddy?" 'No, I think it's pretty easy, Nick. It all depends.' They were seated in the boat...
Sunday, December 31, 2023
If Not, Winter - Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson, Folio Society edition
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I’m very pleased with my purchase of this beautiful edition. The letterpress printing and cream-colored paper are simply exquisite—Homer h...
Thursday, December 29, 2022
Reading Oscars 2022
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All along the year 2022, I crawled slowly further over the lines of Dante Alighieri's Commedia . O ne canto each evening before bedtim...
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