oppression

“Ballad of the Savage Tiger” by Li He

No one attacks it with a long lance, No one plies a strong cross-bow. Suckling its grandsons, rearing its cubs, It trains them into savagery. Its reared head becomes a wall Its waving tail becomes a banner. Even Huang from the Eastern Sea,¹ Dreaded to see it after dark, A righteous tiger, met on the road,²…

September 26, 2018

Joseph M. Gerace

other people’s poetry, poetry

alcoholism, Asian Literature, Confucius, government, li he, oppression, other people’s poems, Tang Dynasty, translation
Free of Language, Freedom and Confidence

Wikipedia Poem, No. 583 flow of creative shackles one purpose, but upon its existence a machine of possibility of language man in a language making toward liberty, free of language freedom and confidence a machine of creation untethethered of creation untethetic, made with speed and confidence a machine of possibility of language man in a…

August 24, 2017

Joseph M. Gerace

wikipoem

France, Frank Bidart, language, Laurent Binet, manifesto, motorcycle, oppression, Roland Barthes, theory