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GLENN'S BOOK NOTES

These in-depth, thought-provoking, and often funny posts are the brainchild of The Book Barn's very own Glenn. He never fails to make a great recommendation, useful warning or entertaining suggestion!

#172: GOOD STUFF COOKIES.

#172: GOOD STUFF COOKIES. Ah, yes, speaking of translating that line in Catullus, here is the first verse of Anselm Hollo’s poem “De...

#171: SPEAKING TO WAKE THE STARS.

#171: SPEAKING TO WAKE THE STARS. I came across J. P. Seaton’s translations from the Chinese a good thirty years ago, in The Wine of...

#170: TWO IRISH PLAYS.

#170: TWO IRISH PLAYS. Some plays depend on a central conceit so ingeniously worked out that they color all our later memories of the...

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