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Sherod Santos

Auteur de Greek Lyric Poetry

11+ oeuvres 217 utilisateurs 2 critiques

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Sherod Santos received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Œuvres de Sherod Santos

Greek Lyric Poetry (2005) 77 exemplaires
The Pilot Star Elegies: Poems (1999) 44 exemplaires
Accidental Weather (1982) 15 exemplaires
Square Inch Hours: Poems (2017) 13 exemplaires
The Perishing: Poems (2003) 11 exemplaires
Elkin Pond (1979) 1 exemplaire
Begin, Distance (1981) 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

The Best American Poetry 2008 (2008) — Contributeur — 135 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2017 (2017) — Contributeur — 93 exemplaires
Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (1999) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires
The Best Spiritual Writing 2012 (2011) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Antaeus No. 34, Summer 1979 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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one of those translations not from knowledge of the original languages but comparison of other translations. totally mangled, avoid
 
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windowlight | 1 autre critique | Jan 16, 2024 |
I stumbled across this gem in Petrolia’s own Family Discount Depot. True to the store’s name, the book was marked down to $3.00. After reading it, I believe it’s worth the full list price.

Inside is 1300 years worth of Greek poetry, ranging from 700 B.C. to A.D. 600. Although the chronological range is broad, the works are all tied together by Santos’ masterful translating. The annotations are also particularly useful for understanding the poems. After a few pages in, I started read the annotation first, to deepen the experience.

This collection was especially interesting to me because it provides background to the life of Jesus. A number of poems spoke of the afterlife and the bleak (non)existence that humans were offered. That helped me to realize the radical nature of the eternal life that Paul & co. offered the Romans as the early church spread out.

One particular verse ran through my mind continually as I read this anthology:

"For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring’." (Acts 17:18, NRSV)

It’s good to have read some of their own poets.
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StephenBarkley | 1 autre critique | Jul 28, 2009 |

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Œuvres
11
Aussi par
5
Membres
217
Popularité
#102,846
Évaluation
½ 3.6
Critiques
2
ISBN
20

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