So yeah, Sofia Samatar translating centuries-old poems by women writing in Arabic. Sharp, filthy, raunchy, sublime. http://sofiasamatar.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/classical-arabic-poetry-by-women.html …
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Replying to @tithenai
@tithenai@tobiasbuckell Wonderful. Love the one by Aisha bint Ahmed al-Qurtubiyya. I am a lioness...2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @junkyardmessiah
@junkyardmessiah@tithenai I know! And I say this as someone who’s usually quite ‘meh’ on most poetry.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @tobiasbuckell
@tobiasbuckell Ha! As an advocate for the reading of poetry I'm contractually obliged to reference Sturgeon's Law.@junkyardmessiah6 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @tithenai
@tithenai@junkyardmessiah i.e.: to me, 95% of poetry doesn’t strike, but space opera is only 75%. My filter is different. Dunno why.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @tobiasbuckell
@tobiasbuckell I have rants about how POETRY is taken as one amorphous lump while prose has genres.@junkyardmessiah4 replies 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @tithenai
@tithenai What? Poetry has had genres longer than prose has! Lyric, tragic, epic, pastoral...@tobiasbuckell@junkyardmessiah3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@pnh Sure! But how many people nowadays break down their dislike of poetry into genre v. "I don't get it"?@tobiasbuckell@junkyardmessiah5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@tithenai + course, just puts them off for life.@tobiasbuckell@junkyardmessiah2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@pnh @tithenai @tobiasbuckell @junkyardmessiah The concept of particulus (http://www.viruscomix.com/abno31.html ) would help with this.
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