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Thu Jan 31, 2008, 10:16 PM
I joined this site largely so I could follow the work accentmarkd posts, and then I realized I could maybe post things too.

I'm not a poet or a photographer, although I may occasionally post poems and photography.

I am a classicist. Which means I translate. It sounds boring, but the more I translate, the more I realize it IS an art. To take poems written in the two most perfect languages in the history of the world (in my opinion) and not only be able to read and understand them myself, but to try and represent them to people who can't read them as they originally are, is quite a task.

I am a fledgling translator, and many of my translations will be refined as I go back. At present, they will almost all be of Catullus poems...he's my favorite author, I have a better feel for him than most, and I just took a class on him.

I claim no credit for the original works...only the language in which you read them.

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  • Drinking: Ice water

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:iconnatisha:
thanks for the fav :)
:iconaccentmarkd:
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we could be those people. this needs to happen. a lot!

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It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.
~Wallace Stevens
:iconwildeflours:
I am SO strongly in favor of that that it hurts.
:iconaccentmarkd:
yeah. the first day the weather is even decent, you me and giz patio with an i-Pod and speakers?

--
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.
~Wallace Stevens
:iconaccentmarkd:
well, and anyone else we can get to come with us

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It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.
~Wallace Stevens
:iconaccentmarkd:
um, I may or may not have spent over 20 minutes looking through pages of the stuff that comes up when you devart search the word tango....

--
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.
~Wallace Stevens

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