My dear followers,
Literary Revelations is proud to feature the excellent poetry of Gerard Sarnat. Have a great weekend everyone.
BIO
Poet, aphorist, humorist or sometimes meanderist; Gerard Sarnat’s a multiple Pushcart/Best of Net Award nominee. His work’s been widely published; including four collections; by London Arts-Based Research Centre, Israel Association of Writers in English, The Nature of Our Times/Poets For Science, Brooklyn Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Gargoyle, New Delta Review, Buddhist Review, New York Times, Oberlin, St. John’s University, Northwestern, Yale, Pomona, Harvard, Missouri Baptist, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, Grinnell, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Brown, North Dakota, McMaster, Maine, British Columbia/Toronto/Chicago, Virginia and Alabama university presses.
He’s a Harvard Medical School-trained physician, Stanford professor, healthcare CEO. Currently, he’s devoting energy and resources to dealing with climate justice, serving on Climate Action Now’s board. Sarnat’s belonged to the longest-running U.S. Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue Group. Gerry’s been married since 1969 and has three kids, six grandsons — and looks forward to future granddaughters
Odd Generosity Of Spirit?
If “philanthropy” comes from the Greek word philanthrōpía,
which combines the words philos meaning “love”
and anthropos meaning “humanity”
“misanthropy” is opposite.
John Milton’s epics Paradise Lost well as Paradise Regained
in their brilliant way regaled Satan to be interesting
more flawed just like us rather than relatively
impassive boringly perfect God.
May Bindweed growgrowgrow!
–thanks to Bindweed Magazine
Convolvulus Arvensis’ stigmatized
since a nuisance
for growing across garden fences
then choking off
their immaculately pruned flowers.
But no one thinks
about Bindweed’s beauty opening
trumpets to world
shouting to be heard as much as
neatly manicured
artificially honed flowers given all
of establishment’s
prestige while rest are left to wilt.
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Strana generosità d’animo?
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Se “filantropia” deriva dalla parola greca philanthrōpía,
che combina le parole philos che significa “amore”
e anthropos che significa “umanità”,
“misantropia” è l’opposto.
I poemi epici di John Milton, Paradiso perduto e Paradiso riconquistato,
hanno brillantemente intrattenuto Satana con l’idea di essere
più imperfetto di noi, piuttosto che
un Dio relativamente impassibile e noiosamente perfetto.
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Gerard Sarnat will envy me a little, seeing as my granddaughter will be born next April. I translated his poetry into Italian, beautiful, aphorsitic, and I will publish it on Sunday 9 February in my weekly column Gioielli Rubati. I kindly ask you to notify the author, thanks and greetings from Italy
Thank you so much Flavio. Oh, my goodness, what a wonderful news. Good look with everything.
I will notify him.
Best wishes, Gabriela
Thank you!