Old Time Love Song Magic Annie M.G. Schmidt Gamoneda leeft teruggetrokken in León

Gamoneda leeft teruggetrokken in León en puurt zijn verzen uit de armoede die hij samen met zijn moeder na de dood van zijn vader in 1932 moest doorstaan

don’t save me

slain girls grow into two

Juliana Spahr sat down to read Brecht

but while the former happen chronologically

Old Time Love Song Magic Annie M.G. Schmidt Gamoneda leeft teruggetrokken in LeónVidy (trans. Andrew Schelling) Old Time Love Song Magic is two books in one. The first collects Andrew Schellings translations of the thirty odd existing poems by Vidy, who may have been the earliest woman to write poetry in Sanskrit. Vidys poetry, which comes to us from around 8th century India, is love poetry, and like all good love poetry, it spans a wide spectrum of feeling, from arousal to playfulness to despair. These poems are gracefully