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Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon

August 30, 2020August 30, 2021 ~ Frank Hudson ~ 1 Comment

Our last audio piece this month had American satirist Mark Twain pointing out incongruities in the longstanding trope of the tortured poetic genius who dashes off “weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, and then gets booming drunk and sleeps in the gutter.” How far back does that trope go? Well at least to 8th … Continue reading Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon

On the Grasshopper and the Cricket

July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 ~ Frank Hudson ~ 1 Comment

There used to be a thing, back in the Seventies when “The Sixties” were being established as a retrospective era: “The Beatles or The Stones?” The idea was that this choice, which was supposed to be somehow exclusive, was an “opener,” a what’s your (astrological) sign query that would tell the questioner who you were—or … Continue reading On the Grasshopper and the Cricket

Wild Plums

September 12, 2018September 12, 2018 ~ Frank Hudson ~ 1 Comment

Is love enough in dealing with matters of translation? I want to talk a bit about some issues with this, and while it may start out sounding esoteric, stay with me, I’ll end up as immediate as anything. I’ve presented Chinese poetry here before. Collected classical Chinese poetry goes back to around the 10th Century … Continue reading Wild Plums

Confucian Ode on Blake, Dickinson, and Whitman

April 29, 2020April 2, 2022 ~ Frank Hudson ~ Leave a comment

It’s time to wrap up our National Poetry Month celebration, and once more I’m going to present a piece where I wrote the words as well as the music, a piece in celebration of the unpredictability of poetic genius. In the “Song of Myself”  section I presented a few days back, Whitman proclaims that America … Continue reading Confucian Ode on Blake, Dickinson, and Whitman

Three More Cinquains

November 16, 2019November 16, 2019 ~ Frank Hudson ~ Leave a comment

Once more, let’s travel back to 1914. For several months, as summer 1913 turns to ’14 through autumn and winter, a 35-year-old woman is creating the manuscript for her first book-length collection of poetry. Creating a book-length manuscript is always a challenging task, and regardless of whatever realistic expectations the author might have for its … Continue reading Three More Cinquains

Night, and I Traveling

December 7, 2019December 11, 2019 ~ Frank Hudson ~ Leave a comment

When I started this project a few years ago I didn’t realize that I’d have to largely work with poetry which is in the public domain. This can still disappoint me, but there’s been a welcome side-effect. This limitation caused me to look deeply into the first couple decades of the 20th century for texts … Continue reading Night, and I Traveling

Translation for Poets and Other Monolinguals

August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 ~ Frank Hudson ~ 3 Comments

Heard this one? A Chinese poet, a shadow and the moon walk into a bar, and they order wine from a translator…Oh, that was last time, and Le Bai’s “Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon.”  Well I promised I’d say a little bit more about translation in another post, as yesterday’s was already long enough. I’ve … Continue reading Translation for Poets and Other Monolinguals

Edward Thomas’ October

September 29, 2019August 30, 2021 ~ Frank Hudson ~ 1 Comment

Moving from 17th century Welsh poet Henry Vaughn we’ll jump forward to a favorite of this blog: 20th century Welsh poet Edward Thomas. Thomas is less well-known in the U.S. than he is in the U.K., perhaps because he’s sometimes classed as a “Georgian poet,” a loose classification given to early 20th century British poets … Continue reading Edward Thomas’ October

And the most liked/listened to piece this fall was…

December 18, 2018December 21, 2018 ~ Frank Hudson ~ Leave a comment

What makes for a “hit” in the small province of the Internet that is yours and mine? We started off the countdown of the most liked and listened to audio pieces here this past fall by talking about the variety of poets and writers that we use for words. Yes, we present well-known poems and … Continue reading And the most liked/listened to piece this fall was…

The River Merchants Wife

July 9, 2017 ~ Frank Hudson ~ 2 Comments

“The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”  has a very complicated history. I can’t even say “Ezra Pound’s ‘The River Merchant’s Wife”— though he’s often listed as the author.  Let’s begin, as a river or a journey might, at the beginning. Back in the 9th Century in China there were two great poets. One of them … Continue reading The River Merchants Wife

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