Poetry
Spring 1985
To the Parents of Our Adopted Children
We think of you often–you, the great providers. Whatever we know of you is little, something of nationality, something of caste, but are you dead or alive–in or out of […]
Poetry
Spring 1985
The Scream
(after the painting by Munch) You hear them? Look . . . the ships, the church, the ice, the winter sunset an open wound on the horizon, this bridge, the […]
Poetry
Spring 1982
From Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King”
CHORUS O the generations of men the dying generations—adding the total of all your lives I find they come to nothing … does there exist, is there a man on earth […]
Poetry
Autumn 2006
Excerpts from “The Aeneid” – The Death of Priam
From the Latin. ”Perhaps you wonder how Priam met his end.When he saw his city stormed and seized, his gateswrenched apart, the enemy camped in his palace depths,the old […]
Poetry
Autumn 2006
Excerpts from “The Aeneid” – Dido in the Underworld
From the Latin. And wandering there among them, wound still fresh,Phoenician Dido drifted along the endless woods.As the Trojan hero paused beside her, recognized herthrough the shadows, a dim, […]
Poetry
Autumn 2006
Excerpts from “The Aeneid” – Aeneas and His Father’s Ghost
From the Latin. Now father Anchises, deep in the valley’s green recess,was passing among the souls secluded there, reviewing them,eagerly, on their way to the world of light above. […]