Voluspa
To close out a month of posts, here’s the Voluspa, that great bit of the world turning over, from the … Continue Reading Voluspa
Egyptian Pyramid Texts
As a companion to yesterday’s excerpts from the Hindu Rig Veda, here are excerpts from religious texts even older than … Continue Reading Egyptian Pyramid Texts
Rig Veda
In another life (appropriately enough), I would have been Hindu; in an additional other life, at the very least I … Continue Reading Rig Veda
Heaney’s Bog Poems
Here’s Seamus Heaney, first talking about his poems on the bog bodies of Iron Age Europe, in Dennis O’Driscoll’s Stepping … Continue Reading Heaney’s Bog Poems
Allen Ginsberg, “Kaddish”
I’d like to say that after Four Quartets, I don’t know of another long poem from the last century that’s … Continue Reading Allen Ginsberg, “Kaddish”
