and it is not only a result of the classic education
In Robert Fagles' translation of Vergil, Aeneas,
contemplating the Trojan War cries out, "The
world is a world of tears, and the burdens of
mortality to touch the heart."
Laura Brylawski-Miller intuits the lacrimae
rerum, the tears in things throughout her poetry,
she received in her native Italy, but a
guiding insight that directs her view of the world,...
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