Catullus: Shibari Carmina by Isobel Williams Ned Denny Paul Stephenson

Paul Stephenson

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In these poems about the death of his mother

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Catullus: Shibari Carmina by Isobel Williams Ned Denny Paul StephensonCarcanet publishes several Catulluses: C. H. Sisson's, Len Krisak's, Simon Smith's. But Isobel Williams's Catullus: Shibari Carmina is different in kind from the earlier versions. 'Translating Catullus has been, for me, like cage fighting with two opponents,' the translator writes: 'not just A Top Poet, but the schoolgirl I was, trained to show the examiner that she knew what each word meant.' The struggle is intensified by the presence of a third