Tuesday, August 27, 2013

"Life", from "Jersy Blues, Selected Poems"

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The Seine at Saint-Cloud,  Edvard Munch, 1890, The Munch Museum, Oslo Life Life, my life. Silent stream that insinuates i...
Monday, August 19, 2013

A Sportsman's Sketches (Записки охотника, "The Hunting Sketches", or "Sketches from a Hunter's Album") by Ivan Turgenev, Full Text English Version

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Portrait of Ivan Turgenev, by Vasily Perov, 1872 This magnificent collection (1852) of short stories by the great Russian Realist mas...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Saint Lawrence's Night, a Poem

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Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night Over the Rhone,  1888, Oil on canvas Saint Lawrence's Night In this night of Saint Lawrenc...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

A few words on "Mowing" by Robert Frost. Original text in English and translation in Italian (Mowing, Falciando l'Erba, by Robert Frost)

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The Scythers, N.C. Wyeth, oil on canvas 1908 A highly evocative poem whereby an everyday experience—a mid-Summer day, cutting grass w...
Friday, July 26, 2013

July and the Night

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Evening Landscape With Rising Moon, Vincent Van Gogh, Saint-Rémy de Provence, 1889, oil on canvas July and the Night  I breathe Tur...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

"Il villaggio vicino", da "Un medico di campagna", F. Kafka, (Das nächste Dorf, from "Ein Landarzt", 1919), versione in italiano

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F. Kafka, Ein Landarzt. 14 Kleine Erzählungen. München und Leipzig: K. Wolff 1919 Il villaggio vicino   Mi nonno soleva dire: ...
Friday, July 12, 2013

Onto You, a Poem from "Jersey Blues, Selected Poems"

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A Bedouin and his camel resting before going down to the Gates of Cairo, by Nellie Hadden Onto You I would cling onto you as in th...