A WESTERN LATINIST
Last nite I dreamt of a
tall, thin denim-clad Western poet praising the Spanish
language's descent from Latin, without admitting the
imperial imposition that entailed, proud of the continuity of
cultures. (An English poet's praising
its descent from French & French's descent from Latin would be even more tendentious by his conspicuous omission of
Saxon becoming Anglo-Saxon.) The poet read his poems to a small group of fans
in an assembly room of a bookstore. After he read, he
complained of his being an obscure writer; actually, he was very well-known for his many
translations (from Spanish, etc.) into English.
(05 JAN 2013 VV Santa
Clara CA)v5
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