Able Muse - ryan wilson https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/1557/1557?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72 en My Bohemia https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/poetry-translation/arthur-rimbaud/my-bohemia?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72 <p>My fists in my torn pockets, off I went,<br /> My tattered jacket turned ideal. Sweet Muse!<br /> I wandered under the sky, obedient,<br /> Dreaming of lovers&rsquo; starlit rendezvous.</p> <p>My only pants had a huge hole as well.<br /> A daydreaming Tom Thumb, as I passed by<br /> I chimed out strings of rhymes. And my hotel<br /> Was the Big Dipper. My stars up in the sky</p> <p>Rustled softly, and I&rsquo;d admire, those fine<br /> September evenings roadside, the melody,<br /> The dew-drops on my brow a potent wine;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/poetry-translation/arthur-rimbaud/my-bohemia?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/poetry-translation/arthur-rimbaud/my-bohemia?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72#comments Poetry Translation arthur rimbaud author french ma bohème my bohemia poem poems poetry poetry translation ryan wilson translation v25 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 21:50:44 +0000 Alex Pepple 1667 at https://www.ablemuse.com The Enemy https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/the-enemy?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72 <p>My youth was just rainstorms and shadows, shot<br /> Through here and there by sunlight&rsquo;s dazzling rays;<br /> Thunder and rain have so laid waste the plot,<br /> My garden boasts few ruddy fruits these days.</p> <p>Now I&rsquo;ve come to the autumn of the mind,<br /> And must work with the rake and spade to save<br /> The ruined muck those showers left behind,<br /> Where water digs troughs deep as any grave.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/the-enemy?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/the-enemy?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72#comments Poetry Translation author charles baudelaire french l&#039;ennemi poem poems poetry poetry translation ryan wilson the enemy translation v25 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:45:04 +0000 Alex Pepple 1666 at https://www.ablemuse.com Catullus iii https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/poetry-translation/gaius-valerius-catullus--catullus/catullus-iii?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72 <p>Weep now, you Venuses and Cupids, weep <br /> You charming men in Venus&rsquo; employ! <br /> My darling&rsquo;s sparrow sleeps an endless sleep, <br /> My darling&rsquo;s sparrow&rsquo;s dead, her pride and joy, <br /> Whom she loved more than she loved her own eyes; <br /> For honey-sweet he was, and he knew her <br /> As well as any girl can recognize <br /> Her mother. From her lap he&rsquo;d never stir, <br /> But hopping little circles, here and there, <br /> Would squeak an endless tune to her alone. <br /> Now by the shadow road he goes down where <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/poetry-translation/gaius-valerius-catullus--catullus/catullus-iii?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/poetry-translation/gaius-valerius-catullus--catullus/catullus-iii?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72#comments Poetry Translation author catullus catullus iii gaius valerius catullus latin poem poems poetry poetry translation ryan wilson translation v25 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:23:57 +0000 Alex Pepple 1665 at https://www.ablemuse.com Ryan Wilson https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/ryan-wilson?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72 <p>Ryan Wilson is the editor of <em>Literary Matters</em> and the author of <em>The Stranger World</em> (Measure Press, 2017), winner of the Donald Justice Prize. Recent work has appeared or will appear in <em>Birmingham Poetry Review, Five Points,</em> the <em>Hopkins Review,</em> the <em>New Criterion,</em> the <em>Sewanee Review,</em> the <em>Yale Review, </em>and <em>The Best American Poetry 2018.</em> He teaches at the Catholic University of America, and he lives with his wife north of Baltimore. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/ryan-wilson?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/ryan-wilson?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72#comments Bios able muse arthur rimbaud author bio catullus catullus iii charles baudelaire gaius valerius catullus my bohemia poetry poetry translation ryan wilson the enemy v25 Mon, 06 Aug 2018 20:32:06 +0000 Alex Pepple 1641 at https://www.ablemuse.com Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/gaius-valerius-catullus--catullus?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72 <p>Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 BC&nbsp;– 54 BC) was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic whose work had a profound influence on later Latin poets, including Ovid, Horace, and Virgil. Approximately 116 of Catullus&rsquo;s often-translated poems have survived. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/gaius-valerius-catullus--catullus?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/gaius-valerius-catullus--catullus?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72#comments Bios author bio catullus catullus iii gaius valerius catullus latin poem poems poetry poetry translation ryan wilson translation v25 Mon, 06 Aug 2018 19:16:54 +0000 Alex Pepple 1637 at https://www.ablemuse.com Arthur Rimbaud https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/arthur-rimbaud?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72 <p>Arthur Rimbaud (1854&nbsp;– 1891) was a French poet who wrote some of the most remarkable poetry and prose of the nineteenth century. He prefigured Surrealism and free verse, and was a major figure in Symbolism. Precocious and miserable in provincial France, he ran away to Paris at sixteen, where he read voraciously and lived in alcoholic squalor, sometimes with Paul Verlaine. Widely regarded as a prodigy, he wrote all of his poetry in the space of less than five years. Before age twenty-one, he burned his last manuscripts and is not known to have written other work.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/arthur-rimbaud?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/arthur-rimbaud?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72#comments Bios arthur rimbaud author bio french ma bohème my bohemia poem poems poetry poetry translation ryan wilson translation v25 Mon, 06 Aug 2018 18:19:12 +0000 Alex Pepple 1634 at https://www.ablemuse.com Charles Baudelaire https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/charles-baudelaire?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72 <p>Charles Baudelaire (1821&nbsp;&ndash; 1897) holds the most wide-ranging influence of the French Symbolist poets. A respected reviewer and critic whose translations of Edgar Allan Poe were much admired in his time, he died young, at only forty-six, but left behind a legacy of work at the center of which stands his masterpiece, the poems of <em>Les Fleurs du mal,</em> first published in 1857 to shock and acclaim.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/charles-baudelaire?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/charles-baudelaire?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72#comments Bios author bio charles baudelaire french l&#039;ennemi poem poems poetry poetry translation ryan wilson the enemy translation v25 Mon, 06 Aug 2018 17:31:37 +0000 Alex Pepple 1633 at https://www.ablemuse.com Horace ii.10 https://www.ablemuse.com/v23/poetry-translation/quintus-horatius-flaccus--horace/horace-ii-10?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72 <p>A better life&rsquo;s not always making for <br /> The deeps, Licinius; nor is it found <br /> Cringing with dread when tempests come around, <br /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Clinging too near the shore.</p> <p>Whoever loves the golden mean will shun <br /> The squalors of the low, forgotten houses, <br /> And also shun the palace that arouses <br /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Envy in everyone.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v23/poetry-translation/quintus-horatius-flaccus--horace/horace-ii-10?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v23/poetry-translation/quintus-horatius-flaccus--horace/horace-ii-10?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72#comments Poetry Translation able muse author bio horace horace ii.10 latin poem poetry poetry translation ryan wilson translation v23 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 17:34:23 +0000 Alex Pepple 1543 at https://www.ablemuse.com Ryan Wilson https://www.ablemuse.com/v23/bio/ryan-wilson?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72 <p>Ryan Wilson was born in Griffin, Georgia, and raised in nearby Macon. His work appears widely, in periodicals such as <em>First Things, Five Points,</em> the <em>Hopkins Review,</em> the <em>New Criterion,</em> the <em>Sewanee Review,</em> and the <em>Yale Review.</em> His first book, <em>The Stranger World,</em> was awarded the 2017 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and was published in hardcover by Measure Press in June of 2017.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v23/bio/ryan-wilson?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v23/bio/ryan-wilson?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72#comments Bios able muse author bio horace horace ii.10 poem poetry poetry translation quintus horatius flaccus ryan wilson v23 Mon, 03 Jul 2017 23:42:08 +0000 Alex Pepple 1511 at https://www.ablemuse.com Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) https://www.ablemuse.com/v23/bio/quintus-horatius-flaccus--horace?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72 <p>Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC–8 BC), &ldquo;Horace&rdquo; to the English-speaking world, was a Roman lyrical poet of satire and historical/pastoral odes. Son of a freedman, eventually he became close friends with Virgil. His famous <em>Ars poetica</em> has been an abc of poetry practice and criticism. He was given a farm near Tivoli, and there he wrote his pastoral and other poems. His main works are his <em>Satires, Odes, Epodes,</em> and <em>Epistles.</em> His <em>Ars </em>suggests that a poet should read widely, and be precise and plain in thought and speech.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v23/bio/quintus-horatius-flaccus--horace?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v23/bio/quintus-horatius-flaccus--horace?s=7345e33d3a8bc2d720b652a34a3c9b72#comments Bios author bio horace horace ii.10 latin poem poems poetry poetry translation quintus horatius flaccus ryan wilson translation v23 Mon, 03 Jul 2017 20:30:05 +0000 Alex Pepple 1505 at https://www.ablemuse.com