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Michael Broder: Priamel

May 12, 2011 by PBQ

You can’t really I don’t think write it today the kind of poem Sappho wrote six hundred years before Christ where you surprise the world saying not an army is it on horseback or of foot soldiers or a fleet of sailing ships that on the black earth is the most beautiful thing but rather whatever someone loves because no one I think would be surprised when the poet says the most beautiful thing is what one loves rather that would be expected and in fact to call armies beautiful would I think be surprising to the modern reader although of course there are subtleties to all of this for example we do today still think ships are beautiful although we tend to romanticize sailing ships ships from the past ships that remind us of an earlier time or at least bring to mind what we think an earlier time was like and we think that time was simpler and therefore better than now.

Filed Under: Contributors 76, Issue 76, Poetry, Poetry 76 Tagged With: Contributors 76, Michael Broder, Poetry, Poetry 76

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