/lit/ - Literature

>>23054429
Yeah, some parts of the vedas, Upanishads, and the whole Bhagavad Gita. Picrel is the table of contents. It’s been a little bit since I’ve read that stuff and my love of Everyman’s Library was rekindled recently so it gave me a good excuse to get it. I’ll always like exploring new translations of the Indian texts or the Tao Te Ching because, if I’m honest with myself, I will never learn the languages, so I figure it’s best to experience in different wordings.

The Davenport is awesome. I haven’t read it all yet but the few essays I have read were well worth it. The titular essay is probably my favorite so far. The Whitman one is great as well and the Joyce one gave me another angles of the complexity of Joyce’s writing that I never would have seen otherwise. Zukofsky and Olson are a couple other poets he has hyped up more me but I still find them a bit intimidating lol. I’ll probably read Paterson first as I’m more familiar with Williams and it seems “easier” and I’m not that great at reading poetry yet. My only complaint is that it’s clearly a scan and some errors have come through on the physical book like a “$” instead of a “s”, or a spacing missed. I’ve only seen a few of them though so it’s nothing egregious and not Davenport’s fault. The man was an impressive mind and he knew his shit