
This is the Substack of Michael R. Burch with some of his very best poems and translations.
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Meleager: Modern English Translations by Michael R. Burch
Meleager was a Greek poet who lived during the first century BC (circa 140-70 BC). Meleager is most famous today for The Garland, an anthology he compiled from epigrammatic poem...
Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” may be the most misunderstood and misquoted poem of all time. Frost did not agree with his neighbor, whom Frost considered a stone-armed savage mindlessly parroting his father’s saying, that “good fences make g...
The eerie “grave request” is one of what I call my “ur” poems. Such poems are cummings-ish in style and syntax, albeit a bit more primitive. While “ur” is used as a slangy synonym for “your” it also suggests primitive gods and religion, sin...
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When Dolly entered Heaven
by Michael R. Burch
When Dolly entered heaven,
St. Peter bowed his head
then tipped his halo, respectfully...
I grew up in a devout evangelical christian family with missionaries, pastors, Sunday school teachers, including my ultra-devout mother, and a deacon.
From the moment I was able to understand words, I was brainwashed to believe that Go...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
I am a poet, translator, essayist, literary critic, editor and publisher. My poems have been published by hundreds of literary journals, taught in high schools and colleges, translated into 23 languages, and set to music 79 times by 36 composers.
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