/lit/ - Literature

Imagine if everyone in the world learned the same type of sign language
Everyone could communicate with everyone

>>13118730
>Sun Ra

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>>11553911
good poems
I like this famous nugget:
Long ago I heard
That this is the road we must all
Travel in the end,
But I never thought it might
Be yesterday or today.

>>11042668
>Focault, Geertz, Marx, Anderson

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>>10219057
>mfw gpa is higher than median stanford law student
also fuck that one creative writing class I took that kept me from 4.0

Babbitt is lovely, though I still prefer Main Street. Like anon above me I truly believe Lewis is criminally underread, both here and elsewhere. But I do also believe he has a great talent for prose. Take a look at the first part of Main Street, for instance:

ON a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of skyscrapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Nor was she thinking of squaws and portages, and the Yankee fur-traders whose shadows were all about her. She was meditating upon walnut fudge, the plays of Brieux, the reasons why heels run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears.
A breeze which had crossed a thousand miles of wheat-lands bellied her taffeta skirt in a line so graceful, so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistfulness over her quality of suspended freedom. She lifted her arms, she leaned back against the wind, her skirt dipped and flared, a lock blew wild. A girl on a hilltop; credulous, plastic, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life. The eternal aching comedy of expectant youth.
It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College.
The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest.

>I had an opportunity to contribute to this but didn't

>>7899999
witnessed

>>7379210
>>7379696
This is the edition I've got.
http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Translations-Second-Directions-Paperbook/dp/0811217337/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1448227981&sr=1-10&keywords=ezra+pound
It's edited by the same man who did Pound's volume for the Library of America, and it's published by New Directions. It's a very good cross-section of Pound's entire output, and includes a good deal of the Cantos & his translations of other poems.