They Feed They Lion By Philip Levine ``` Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter, Out of black bean and wet slate bread, Out of the acids of rage, the candor of tar, Out of creosote, gasoline, drive shafts, wooden dollies, They Lion grow. Out of the gray hills Of industrial barns, out of rain, out of bus ride, West Virginia to Kiss My Ass, out of buried aunties, Mothers hardening like pounded stumps, out of stumps, Out of the bones’ need to sharpen and the muscles’ to stretch, They Lion grow. Earth is eating trees, fence posts, Gutted cars, earth is calling in her little ones, “Come home, Come home!” From pig balls, From the ferocity of pig driven to holiness, From the furred ear and the full jowl come The repose of the hung belly, from the purpose They Lion grow. From the sweet glues of the trotters Come the sweet kinks of the fist, from the full flower Of the hams the thorax of caves, From “Bow Down” come “Rise Up,” Come they Lion from the reeds of shovels, The grained arm that pulls the hands, They Lion grow. From my five arms and all my hands, From all my white sins forgiven, they feed, From my car passing under the stars, They Lion, from my children inherit, From the oak turned to a wall, they Lion, From they sack and they belly opened And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth They feed they Lion and he comes. ```

Elder Sister by Sharon Olds from *In The Dead and the Living: Poems* by Sharon Olds. Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

*A Small Needful Fact* by Ross Gay Is that Eric Garner worked
 for some time for the Parks and Rec. 
Horticultural Department, which means,
 perhaps, that with his very large hands,
 perhaps, in all likelihood,
 he put gently into the earth
 some plants which, most likely, 
some of them, in all likelihood, 
continue to grow, continue
 to do what such plants do, like house
 and feed small and necessary creatures, 
like being pleasant to touch and smell, 
like converting sunlight
 into food, like making it easier
 for us to breathe.

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Alexander Pope's translation of *The Iliad* is certainly a translation to read, but likely not the first one to read. His preface is a joy for fans of Homer, though.

I just finished Pope's translation of *The Iliad*. I found it very tight to Homer's ancient Greek of the five translations I have read. That said I did not enjoy the Romanization of the Greek gods' names.

An essay about the development of Homeric studies and Milman Parry.

How do different parts of contemporary/modern European nation/state relate to Homer ? One novel would like to add to the discourse.

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As oral poetry needs to be flexible the epithets that Homer used to describe his gods and heroes enabled that metric flexibility. Dive into more parts of Homer's and Athena's favorite: Odysseus.

There is just one moment in the *Iliad* that writing or a hint of what writing was mentioned, and it is a direct reference to the ancient Greek hero Bellerophon's tales. How does this relate to the Homeric Question ?