The Infinite Moment: Greek Poetry bookcover

The Infinite Moment: Greek Poetry

Sam Hamill 

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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."

Product Details

PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish DateApril 17, 1992
Pages108
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780811211994
Dimensions7.5 X 4.5 X 0.4 inches | 0.3 pounds
BISAC Categories: Poetry,

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