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Erik, the BFG ([personal profile] erikred) wrote2004-02-03 10:17 am
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Poetry

Jeanette Winterson features C.P. Cavafy's "The God Abandons Antony" in her Poem of the Month.

This is heartbreaking and so beautiful.
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[identity profile] mumbojumble.livejournal.com 2004-02-03 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
I agree. No one ever thinks about poor Antony. I also love Winterson; she's on my qualifying exam list (on metamorphosis in literature).

Rather perversely, I will now turn you away from literature and toward, well, this, just because you're a Joel Veitch fan. Blame my husband, not me. He saw it first.

[identity profile] tinymammoth.livejournal.com 2004-02-03 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, Leonard Cohen has a song that comes from this poem, I didn't realize it wasn't original with him.

His take is very different, but similar in theme:
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/ALEXANDRA-LEAVING-lyrics-Leonard-Cohen/C566E1BE78AC832748256AF00029EB9B

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