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. 2025년 1월 17일 자 작가 연감을 읽는다*:205년 전 이날 태어난 앤 브론테는스물아홉에 폐결핵으로 세상을 떠났다.오빠와 언니 에밀리가 같은 병으로돌아간 지 한 해가 안 되어서다. 내가 폐결핵 걸린 게 드러난 건스물일곱이던 1972년 여름유학 자격 신체검사에서였다.한 해 통원치료로 완쾌됐다스트렙토마이신이 나를 살렸다. 나는 스트렙토마이신이 발견된다음다음 해에, 그리고 앤은그보다 123년 전에 태어났다수많은 기도에도 불구하고나기도 때문이라고, 목사는 그러려나. * Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë Within the next year, three of the four Brontë siblings — Emily, Anne, and their brother Branwe..

. Seamus Heaney [ 아래는 작년 가을 "사진 일기"에 "First Loves" 책 표지 사진을 올리며 덧븥였던 거다. ] "The first poems I heard were short, and i didn't even think of them as poems. They were bits of blow-in in the daily talk, like leaves in a gust, alive and familiar and a delight -- but no big deal"로 시작되는 Seamus Heaney에는 그가 어렸을 적 들은 couplets(2행 연구) 넷이 나오는데 그중 셋을 또 읽어본다. 매력적이다 (왠지 Edgar Lee Master의 시집 "Spoon River Anthol..

. Barbara Guest When i was young my mother, who was no way professed to be literary, was much attached to poetry.... She had a good memory and was fond of quoting poetry. Some days, all days, I would hear her recite poems that I now know were from The Oxford Book of English Verse -- I have a copy on my self. She liked Tennyson, and I can still hear the line "The splendour falls on castle walls a..

. Edward Hirsch I was initiated into poetry trance on a rainy Saturday afternoon in mid October ... when I wandered down to the basement of our house to pick through some of my grandfather's forgotten books. i was eight years old .... I opened a musty anthology of poetry to a section called "Night" and read a poem that immediately arrested me.... I read it straight through, and its simple increm..

. Carmela Ciuraru ("First Loves" Introduction에서): [In college I was transfixed by Elizabeth Bishop's villanelle "One Art."] Soon afterward I discovered the poems of Anna Akhmatova, in an edition translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward. My favorite, "We don't know how to say goodbye." begins: We don't know how to say goodbye: We wander on, shoulder to shoulder. ..

. "First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential PoemsThat Captivated and Inspired Them" (2000)Edited by Carmela Ciuraru 예순여덟 시인들이 자신의 첫사랑(이었던) 시에 대해 말해준다. 생각나면 한두 시인을 읽어보곤 했는데, 이번엔 다 읽어볼 생각이다. 어떤 시인은 여기 인용하게 될 것 같다. 우선, Louise Glück, 2020 노벨문학상 수상 시인. 아래 인용한 두 구절은 -- 다음 포스트에 인용하는, Glück에 대한 편집자 Ciurau의 언급과 함께 -- 내가 그녀의 시 스타일에 처음부터 끌렸던 이유를 잘 설명해 주기도 한다. 그녀의 책, 2000년엔가 주문해서 사서 채 다 읽지도 못했는데 한국에서 이리로..

. 도서관 라운지팔꿈치 높이 큰 테이블에오늘 조간 덴버포스트혼자 태연하게 놓여있다 WEST BANK Settlers torch mosque, Scrawl hateful ... ------- By Aref Tufaha and Julia Frankel The Associated Press ------- DEIRISTIVA, WESTBANK>> Israeli settlers torched and defaced a mosque in a Palestinian village in the central West Bank overnight, scribbling hateful messages in a show of defiance, a d..

. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, "The Age of Revolutions: Andthe Generations Who Made It" (2024) An Interview with Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (위 인터뷰에서) I was startled by the similarities that I perceived, for instance, between aspects of the American Revolution and the uprisings in South America in the early 1780s: the central role of creole elites in both, for instance, or the diffi..

. John Banville, "The Lock-Up: A Novel" (2023) 서평 (New York Times) 본문에서: The sun through the mist was producing copperry glints from the steely surface of the river. Quirke looked over to the far bank, where the city climbed the side of a steep hill. Cork was more hansome than he remembered. Or was it just the flattering autumn light? (p. 155) Strafford regarded them warily. There were always h..

. Karen Armstrong, "A History of God" (1993) 전에 읽은 Robert Wright의 "The Evolution of God" (2009)과의 대비도,그리고 Armstrong은 성경을 많이 인용한 것 같은 점도 어느 정도 내 흥미를 끈다.전에도 언급했지만 그녀의 책들 중에, "The Spiral Staircase" (2004)는재밌게 읽고서도, "The Case for God" (2009)은 어떤 이유에서읽을 만하지 않겠다는 생각이었는데, 이전에 나온 이 책은오히려 읽어볼 만 하지 않을까. Arapahoe Community College (위, 아래). 기능적이고 아름다운, 거대한 콘크리트 건물 한 채가 사실상 main campus의 전부다. ..