Anthony Madrid

Twenty-six items from Special Collections

Twenty-six items from Special Collections (w)

Exhibit ‘W’: Russian. (Anna Akhmatova, ['The twenty-first. Night. Monday.'], 1917)

Bibliography: The image above is from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Expanded Edition, translated by Judith Hemschemeyer, edited by Roberta Reeder (Zephyr Press, 1992), page 770. The poem below originally appeared in Akhmatova's book White Flock (Petrograd, 1917).

Twenty-six items from Special Collections (v)

Exhibit ‘V’: Yoruba. (Anonymous, six animal poems)

Bibliography: Yoruba Poetry: An Anthology of Traditional Poems, compiled and edited by Ulli Beier (Cambridge, 1970).

Comment: A couple of notes from the book:
   #1: "Much of the hunters’ Ijala poetry is concerned with the animals in the bush." 

Twenty-six items from Special Collections (u)

Exhibit ‘U’: Scots Gaelic. (Sorley Maclean, 'Hallaig,' 1954)

Bibliography: Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems, by Sorley Maclean, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Iain Crichton Smith, and Donald MacAulay: A bilingual anthology edited and introduced by Donald MacAulay (New Directions, 1977). Maclean's poem "Hallaig" appears on pages 84–89: English on the left, Gaelic on the right.

Twenty-six items from Special Collections (t)

Exhibit ‘T’: USA children (20th and 21st centuries)

Bibliography: Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry, by Kenneth Koch and the Students of P.S. 61 in New York City (Chelsea House, 1970).

Twenty-six items from Special Collections (r)

Exhibit ‘R’: Russian. (Anton Chekhov, 58 items from his notebooks)

Bibliography: Notebook of Anton Chekhov, translated by S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf (Ecco, 1987). Originally published by B.W. Huebsch, Inc., 1921.

Comment: I am constitutionally opposed to the application of the statement You either have it or you don't to any situation whatsoever. My abiding intuition is that that sentence is mainly a means by which eminent persons discourage beginners.