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Category: Poetry

December 28, 2021

Review: Sunstone, Octavio Paz Lozano

Rating: 5 out of 5 There is only one way to assess something as profound, on so many different levels, as ‘Sunstone’, and that…

May 5, 2020

Review: The Prophet, Khalil Gibran

Rating: 5 out of 5 ‘The Prophet’ falls very easily into the category of books that one would love or hate; for me, it…

April 7, 2020

Review: Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters

Rating: 3 out of 5 Other people have called this “an unique literary experience”. I will agree with this, without reflecting on whether this…

December 30, 2019

Review: Cold Mountain, Sean Michael Wilson & Hanshan

Rating: 4 out of 5 I am not sure I read this as I should have. Mine was a glancing look that often strayed,…

May 22, 2019

Review: The Essential Rumi, Rumi

Rating: 2 out of 5 This was a very difficult listen, and my first word of advice is — don’t choose the audiobook! The…

April 14, 2019

Il-Kantilena

Il-Kantilena is a Maltese poem. This, in itself, would have made me curious to investigate further. That it is also the oldest extant text…

February 15, 2019

Review: The Day of Doom, Michael Wigglesworth

Rating: 3 out of 5 It’s not that I dislike the poem — I think too many of the other people here have fallen…

June 24, 2018

Arvustus: Liivimaa riimkroonika

Hinnang: 4 / 5 Ajaloolisi allikaid on raske, isegi ehk võimatu, hinnata tänapäevaste standardite järgi, kui just selleks ei võta teose võimalikku kasulikkust praegusele…

May 30, 2018

Review: The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri My rating: 3 of 5 stars I wanted to enjoy this classic but perhaps that is what encouraged…

December 19, 2017

The Desolation of Chang’an, Wei Zhuang

Chang’an lies in mournful stillness: what does it now contain? — Ruined markets and desolate streets, in which ears of wheat are sprouting. Fuel-gatherers…

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