Glad you liked it! Yeah, I'm not an expert here but I'll be approaching this from a perspective of Slovakia, which is perhaps not common those of us in the US. So this will be good for me to explore WWI like this and I'm looking forward to your perspective as we go!
Yeah once I looked into him a bit more I was really inspired. Thanks for the encouraging words as I wasn't sure how much interest there would be. But yeah, It'll be nice to start with each sonnet and then probe around the history, the biography and such. They get more intense as they go, although this one starts out very "metal" I'd say :)
Wow! Great stuff. Have you read Bly's translations of Georg Trakl? One of my other favorite WW1 poets.
I will check it out, thanks!
https://dreamsongs.com/Files/Trakl.pdf
Love this. World War I doesn't get the attention it deserves
Glad you liked it! Yeah, I'm not an expert here but I'll be approaching this from a perspective of Slovakia, which is perhaps not common those of us in the US. So this will be good for me to explore WWI like this and I'm looking forward to your perspective as we go!
I love this format and cool history background. Being an anti-war voice throughout human history has to be one of the most frustrating endeavors.
Yeah once I looked into him a bit more I was really inspired. Thanks for the encouraging words as I wasn't sure how much interest there would be. But yeah, It'll be nice to start with each sonnet and then probe around the history, the biography and such. They get more intense as they go, although this one starts out very "metal" I'd say :)