[New-Poetry] Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra

[TheOldMole]

I'll probably never teach the course, but I was shooting for one poem 
per continent (I notice I don't have an Asian on this list - I know I 
had one, trying to remember who). And there are two Eastern Europeans -- 
I think I settled on Havel rather than Yevtushenko, because I heard Y 
read in NY once (at Madison Square Garden!) and he was kinda awful. And 
no North American because there isn't one - we're not a culture that 
makes heroes of our poets. Bob Dylan comes closest.

I would love to see some of your Senghor translations.

And I would love it if someone with real academic standing would pick up 
this idea and run with it.

Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> TheOldMole wrote:
>   
>> I always wanted to teach a course on Poets Who Were National Heroes. I'd
>> have included Burns, Neruda, probably Yevtushenko, Havel and Senghor.
>>     
>
> Well, Biafra was a nation, if only for a few years until we were
> crushed, so I'd like to nominate Christopher Okigbo to your list.  He
> also happens to be one of the greatest modern African poets, and IMO the
> greatest Nigerian one.
>
>
>   

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