Notes — Blackbird Archive

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Ezra Pound: “Canto XXVIII”

W. R. Burnet: Little Caesar

Jack Kerouac: Mexico City Blues

Stella Kerouac: Interview (10/21/69)

W. R. Burnet: Little Caesar

T. S. Eliot: “The Cultivation of Christmas Trees,” Four Quartets (“Burnt Norton,” “The Dry Salvages,” “Little Gidding”), “Sweeney Among the Nightingales,” “Fragment of an Agon,” “The Naming of Cats,” The Waste Land

George Barker: “Elegiacs for T. S. Eliot”

F. T. Prince: “The Yüan Chên Variations II,” “Walks in Rome I, IV,” “Not a Paris Review Interview,” “Soldiers Bathing”

John Ashbery: “America”

Colin Wilson: The Outsider

Caedmon: “Caedmon’s Hymn”

Theocritus: “Thyrsis”

David Slavitt: The Eclogues of Virgil

Virgil: Eclogues IV

W. H. Davies: “Sheep”

Hebrews 13:20

John 21:15-16

Anna Akhmatova: “Requiem”

George Orwell: Animal Farm

Publius Ovidius Naso: Tristia, V, vii

David R. Slavitt: The Tristia of Ovid

Nelly Sachs: “You onlookers”

Joseph Brodsky: “Abroad,” “December 24, 1971”

Publius Ovidius Naso: Tristia, V, vii

Joseph Brodsky: “Anno Domini”

Nelly Sachs: “Someone comes”

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Über Gewissheit / On Certainty; Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung / Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; Bemerkungen über die Grundlagen der Mathematik / Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics; Vermischte

Bemerkungen / Culture and Value; Philosophische Untersuchungen / Philosophical Investigations

The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians 13:12

Evangelium S. Johannis 1:1

Dante Alighieri: Inferno, Paradiso

Sergio Luzzato: The Body of Il Duce

Ron Rosenbaum: Explaining Hitler

William Shakespeare: Macbeth

R.H.W. Dillard

R.H.W. Dillard’s books of poetry include, most recently, Not Ideas (forthcoming from Factory Hollow Press, 2014), and What Is Owed the Dead (Factory Hollow Press, 2011). He is also the author of Sallies (2001), Just Here , Just Now (1994), After Borges (1972), all published by Louisiana State University Press; News of the Nile (1971), The Day I Stopped Dreaming About Barbara Steele and Other Poems (1966), both published from the University of North Carolina Press; and The Greeting (University of Utah Press, 1981). Dillard is the author of two novels, The First Man on the Sun (Louisiana University Press, 1983) and The Book of Changes (Doubleday, 1974). He has also published a collection of short fiction, Omniphobia (Louisiana State University Press, 1995), and two critical studies, Understanding George Garrett (University of South Carolina Press, 1988) and Horror Films (Monarch Press, 1976). He is the coauthor, with George Garrett and John Rodenbeck, of the screenplay for the 1965 film Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster , rereleased on DVD (Dark Sky Films, 2006). Dillard is the recipient of the 2007 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature, the 2003 Hanes Prize for Poetry, and the 1994 O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize from Folger Shakespeare Library. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Photo by R.H.W. Dillard