Omeros/Walcott Thread

[Anonymous No.10938441]

Gonna read this after Franzen's Freedom (on page 120 rn). What am I in for with Omeros? And does Patty ever play basketball again?

[Anonymous No.10938486]

Delete this and make a sensible thread

[Anonymous No.10938553]

>>10938441

I have bought a transaltion of it last week. Will read it comparing to the original in English. He seems like a great writer, if one can judge by smaller works, like:

A City's Death By Fire

After that hot gospeller has levelled all but the churched sky,
I wrote the tale by tallow of a city's death by fire;
Under a candle's eye, that smoked in tears, I
Wanted to tell, in more than wax, of faiths that were snapped like wire.
All day I walked abroad among the rubbled tales,
Shocked at each wall that stood on the street like a liar;
Loud was the bird-rocked sky, and all the clouds were bales
Torn open by looting, and white, in spite of the fire.
By the smoking sea, where Christ walked, I asked, why
Should a man wax tears, when his wooden world fails?
In town, leaves were paper, but the hills were a flock of faiths;
To a boy who walked all day, each leaf was a green breath
Rebuilding a love I thought was dead as nails,
Blessing the death and the baptism by fire.

[Anonymous No.10938765]

That cover always reminds me to find pic related, thanks op.