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The Infinite Moment: Greek Poetry (Paperback)
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The Infinite Moment: Greek Poetry (Paperback)
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The Infinite Moment is a personal selection made by a poet known
for his elegant translations from several languages, Chinese,
Japanese, Estonian, Latin, and now ancient Greek. Drawing from the
classic Lyra Graeca and The Greek Anthology, Sam Hamill has made
new, American translations of poems in the thousand-year tradition
that begins with Sappho, Alcaeus, and Anakreon in the 6th century
C.E. The love poems, epigrams, and sly invective of over forty
poets remind us once again of the deep wellspring of ancient Greece
that nourished the roots of so many cultures. The Greek lyric poem
was made to be performed with musical accompaniment, but like its
modern descendent it seeks to articulate the experience of insight
attained in the infinity of the moment. Says Hamill: "The
fundamental experiences of humanity remain simultaneously universal
and particular. The tears of Lymnos on the banks of the Akeron are
the same tears Hitomaro shed a thousand years later on the shores
of the Omi Sea."
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