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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗢𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗸 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁 -

Walcott's epic poetic work is at once a refiguring of Homer and the colonial history of St. Lucia, of the indigenous everywhere, of the myths which mark poet and people. An extraordinary layering of all.

#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #read #book #readreadread #derekwalcott #poetry #omeros #homer #stlucia #caribbeanliterature #epicpoetry #colonialism #magicalrealism #visionquest

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗸 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁'𝘀 "𝗢𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘀" -

Walcott's epic poem of St. Lucia, but also of postcolonial culture, Homeric epics, the Revolutionary War, American Western expansion, language and art, aging, tourist economies, and a host of other layers is both poem and dream-state, compelling story and unnerving memory.

https://youtu.be/rBIcxQuwNN4

#books #bookreviews#tbr #tbrpile #quotes #reading #poetry #epicpoetry #caribbeanliterature #stlucia #postcolonialism

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱" 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗼𝗻 -

Both spectacular reads after we get past Milton's narratological problem; and my take: Regained is the stronger work!

https://buff.ly/4i82hW2

#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #milton #johnmilton #paradiselost #paradiseregained #christianity #genesis #eden #theology #temptationsinthedesert #satan #eve #epicpoetry #blankverse

new #Neolatin publication (via @huss) on #Petrarch​s Africa: Huss, Bernhard, und Daniel Melde. 2024. „Der Dichter als Augenzeuge. Historizitätserwartungen in der Gattungstradition der Epik“. In Der Tumult der Anfänge und das Versickern am Ende, herausgegeben von Bernhard Huss, Bernd Roling, und Anita Traninger, 133–62. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111624426-007.

#openAccess @neolatin #epicpoetry

Today's poem:

The Charge of the Light Brigade
- by Alfred Tennyson

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/762306084718428160/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade?source=share

#cavalry #Balaklava #battle #war
#EpicPoetry #Tennyson #blunder #stupidity #Crimea

Epoch by Dave JIlk is science fiction infused with philosophy, psychology, and mythology, all brought together as an epic poem with extensive references. It is not recommended for casual consumption; in the words of Herman Melville, “read it if you can.”
#epicpoetry #books
https://www.amazon.com/Epoch-Poetic-Psy-Phi-Dave-Jilk-ebook/dp/B0DCGH3HG7/

July is Hermead Month because I wrote my epic of philosophers 16 July 2011 to 14 July 2018 to present lives and ideas of 26 ancient philosophers.

http://TinyUrl.com/HermeadEpic

#Hermead #HermeadDay #HermeadMonth #Epic #EpicPoem #EpicPoetry #Poetry

The Iliad, or The Poem of Force
Simone Weil

"The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force. Force employed by man, force that enslaves man, force before which man’s flesh shrinks away. "

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/simone-weil-the-iliad

#Iliad #PoemOfForce #Epic #EpicPoem #EpicPoetry #SimoneWeil

For many people, "epic poem" means epic story told in verse; think "The Odyssey." But Linnea Axelsson's epic poem "Ædnan: An Epic" is a real world story with political and social ramifications, as I learned when we did this exclusive interview.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-aednan-an-epic-author-linnea-axelsson/
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#LinneaAxelsson #LinneaAxelssonInterview #LinneaAxelssonÆdnanAnEpic #LinneaAxelssonÆdnan #LinneaAxelssonAednanAnEpic #LinneaAxelssonAednan #Poems #Poetry #EpicPoetry #EpicPoems

#ProsePoem #EpicPoetry #EpicPoem #Postmodern #PostModernLiterature #Poetry
#Novella #Blog #Writing #WritingCommunity #Fiction #BLog

So This has been what I have been working on most of the last week. I feel like I have found my voice with the realization that #GravitysRainbow is a prose poem and I am writing in the tradition of Jim Dodge and Richard Brautigan by way of that realization.

all constructive criticism is welcome and appreciated.

The link is to my blog

https://m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2023/10/wayward-bound-or-warped-piano.html

Recounting lives and ideas of 26 ancient philosophers who programmed the core thought code of science and Academia, the Hermead Epic of Philosophers is structured like the Shahnameh and the Faerie Queene.

http://tny.sh/HermeadHC

#Hermead #Epic #EpicPoem #EpicPoetry #Shahnameh #FaerieQueene

Got my copy of Odyssey of Star Wars Epic Poem by Jack Mitchell!

If I could be a professor at a university I would be the Professor of Epic Poetry.

#StarWars #StarWarsEpic #Epic #EpicPoem #EpicPoetry #DarthVader

It's a very feminist-translations-of-epic-poetry Xmas

#poetry #epicpoetry #ancientGreek #ancientgreece #ancientrome #feminist #translation #history #literature

Looking for more narrative poems and prose either inspired by or creatively adapting epic literature, like Alice Oswald's Memorial, Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, Maria Dahvana Headley's Beowulf translation and Derek Walcott's Omeros

Any suggestions?

#poetry #poems #EpicPoetry #literature #classicliterature #ancientgreek #ancientliterature

Astarian Scriptures

Wohaliad 2,900 Poems 2019-2021
Hermead Epic of Philosophers 2011-2018
Zarathiad 2,476 Poems 2012-2018
Solariad 1,660 Poems 2006-2011
Angeliad 1,346 Poems 2001-2005
Gothiniad 1,948 Poems 1993-2000
Takomiad 2,590 Poems 1984-1992

http://TinyUrl.com/AstarianScriptanScriptures

#Poetry #EpicPoetry #EpicPoem #Philosophy