And I know it's you knocking around in there

[sovay]

In no particular order—

1. I have been Spontaneously Spotted! I feel like some sort of rare species.

2. Today is my father's birthday non-observed. Last night I made a hazelnut cake; today it gets whipped cream, strawberries, and that very dark chocolate icing that is basically cacao with a little butter to make it pliable. I believe we are taking him to Za for dinner. Mostly I got him books.

3. This is the best poem about the Odyssey I've seen in a long time.

4. heliopsis has coined an excellent word.

5. The trees are budding. It's not snowing yet.

Comments

[helivoy.livejournal.com]

Pairing Tsvetayeva with Sappho would be far more interesting, as would be Celan with Elytis, Lorca with Theodhorou...

[helivoy.livejournal.com]

I meant: far more interesting than Shakespeare with Sappho. Maybe that's a thought experiment that Goblin Fruit editors could ponder!

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

Not sure - you see, Tsvetaeva is much more ferocious than Sappho, imho.

[helivoy.livejournal.com]

My pairings were off the cuff -- plus I was thinking of this more as a conversation than a Thunderdome encounter. I agree Tsvetaeva is fierce. A good partner might be the writer of The Song of Songs, or Adrienne Rich.

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

If you pair Tzvetaeva with anyone, it will indeed be a Thunderdome encounter! And yes on either of those opponents! I do wonder if they wanted a m/f pairing though.

[sovay]

My pairings were off the cuff -- plus I was thinking of this more as a conversation than a Thunderdome encounter.

I want all of them to play a game of Exquisite Corpse.