23位诗人有18个男的。每位诗人几行介绍,女性必提其婚姻,同性恋不提,男的不提。摘录以下关于女性的评语供姐妹一笑:无法探究本质/难懂、缺乏新意/远不如庞德独创、缺乏热力、女拜伦的美称/无法发展为一流诗人、醉心于发掘混乱。„You are ice and fire,/The touch of you burns my hands like snow./You are cold and flame./You are the crimson of amaryllis,/The silver of moon-touched magnolias./When I am with you,/My heart is a frozen pond/Gleaming with agitated torches.“
翻译水平参差不齐。终于读到The Waste Land,可惜不合胃口。自注长得惊人,愿称之为掉书袋之大成者,用典太多就无聊了,还是喜欢有自己语言的诗人。
感谢带我认识华莱士·史蒂文斯和E. E.肯明斯。
· They said, "You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are."
The man replied, "Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar."