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[NSFW] [seriously] Harvard Review --- Down and Dirty: Translations of Catullus (2017) (www.harvardreview.org)

submitted 1 year ago by snakesnakewhale to c/poetry

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He screws all the girls he can find
and makes himself out a charmer,
and somehow he’s managed to escape
being sent to the grinding-mill
and donkey’s work.

versus

but he’s the guy that loves the gals
a Devastating Male—
my God, when will they catch the man
and lock him up in jail?

versus

This is the big lady the ladies all fuck for?
I’d plug his face with a horse dick instead.

Whoa.

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[–] snakesnakewhale 2 points 1 year ago

I have since bought the Carl Sesar translations, and I can confirm they are awesome