Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Great Regulars: Often, the best poem about a momentous event

may be written long before the event happens. (Walt Whitman's great elegy for Abraham Lincoln is an exception. Here, in a translation by Mark Strand, is a poem by the Brazilian Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987), written decades ago:

Souvenir of the Ancient World

from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice

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