John Scotus Eriugena at Laon & Other Poems by Jacques Darras, trans. by Richard Sieburth Laurel2022 swiftly deleted texts and briefly

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physical cruelty and those with the class power to deny others their share of worldly goods and pleasures

as well as some of its dramatic high points

lifts the veil on the human condition that we would prefer not to be lifted

John Scotus Eriugena at Laon & Other Poems by Jacques Darras, trans. by Richard Sieburth Laurel2022 swiftly deleted texts and brieflyA long overdue volume of Jacques Darras, celebrated French poet of place and nature, and prolific translator and scholar of American and British poetry. "John Scotus Eriugena at Laon," the title poem of this volume, recounts the journey of a ninth century Irish monk to the cathedral city of Laon in the heart of Picardy to translate a recently discovered Byzantine manuscript into Latinthe first such transmission of ancient Greek thought northward into