pickI love this Anglo-Saxon anthology of poetry. The editors chose to have poets translate the poems rather than just translators, but remain true to the original. The title refers to trafficking words and exchanging words in translation and “weaving words into ideas...that links writers in English across a span of over a thousand years.” This book has lots of riddles and some more familiar poems like The Seafarer to old charms and biblical stories.
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Fascinating book, full of Riddle-Hoards, prayers admonition and allegories, charms, lives of saints, poems of exile and longing, poems about historical battles, people and places.
2019 theme 2 : Rome to the Renaissance. A cobbled theme from miscellaneous classics I want to read. Not sure how or if this will actually work out. I'm actually nervous about Apuleius and Plutarch, but think I want to read these Romans. I don‘t have a good plan on what to read to prep me for any of this (ideas welcome!).
The library is teasing me, as if I can make a dent in six weeks. At least I only have to read the Shakespeare once.
Coming up from a writing/world building marathon to do #booksbythesea on #somethingforsept ! A couple of these I need to return to, because they are relevant to said world building, and this is my school copy of Moby Dick. And Word Exchange, which I haven't finished, is a great volume of old old old school poetry.
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation | 
