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The Infinite Moment: Greek Poetry Paperback - 1992

by Sam Hamill (Editor); Sam Hamill (Translator)

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The Infinite Moment is a personal selection made by a poet known for his elegant translations from several languages, Chinese, Japanese, Estonian, Latin, and now ancient Greek. Drawing from the classic Lyra Graeca and The Greek Anthology, Sam Hamill has made new, American translations of poems in the thousand-year tradition that begins with Sappho, Alcaeus, and Anakreon in the 6th century C.E. The love poems, epigrams, and sly invective of over forty poets remind us once again of the deep wellspring of ancient Greece that nourished the roots of so many cultures.

The Greek lyric poem was made to be performed with musical accompaniment, but like its modern descendent it seeks to articulate the experience of insight attained in the infinity of the moment. Says Hamill: "The fundamental experiences of humanity remain simultaneously universal and particular. The tears of Lymnos on the banks of the Akeron are the same tears Hitomaro shed a thousand years later on the shores of the Omi Sea."

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The Infinite Moment is a personal selection made by a poet known for his elegant translations from several language, Chinese, Japanese, Estonian, Latin, and now ancient Greek.

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  • Title The Infinite Moment: Greek Poetry
  • Author Sam Hamill (Editor); Sam Hamill (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 108
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publication date April 1992
  • ISBN 9780811211994 / 0811211991
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.49 x 4.48 x 0.36 in (19.02 x 11.38 x 0.91 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Greek poetry - Translations into English
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 881.010

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  • Booklist, 03/15/1992, Page 1331

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