By Dirk Sacr?, Marcel Smets, Marcel Smets
Illustrated by Mark McIntyre
Translated by Herman Servotte

Description

Elegant simplicity: Haiku in Latin, with English translation.
Tonight They All Dance can serve as a primer to the composition of Latin verse and, as such, can lend students and scholars alike insight into the intricacies and joys of writing poetry in a non-native language. Haiku, with its short form and engaging content, is the ideal instrument for a first exploration of Latin poetic composition. By modeling the composition of Latin haiku and translating both the substance and the form into English haiku, students will begin to understand the challenges of accurate and beautiful translation. It is only through such intimate experience that a true sense of Latin verse can be gained.

Special Features

• Introduction with tips on composing Latin Haiku
• 92 Latin Haiku
• English Translations
• Four sections: Caelestia, Terrestria, Animalia, and Humana
• Vocabulary
• Illustrated throughou

Comments and Reviews

...an interesting and entertaining book. It is fun to encounter many of these poems, old friends from Japanese masters, in new clothes and in an utterly different context. The additional texts are contemporary and international... the illustrations are a stunning enhancement of the text.

— Jim Kacian, Editor
Frogpond of Haiku Society of America

What a delightful way to encourage our students not merely to learn Latin by manipulating it, but especially to find their own poetic spirit.

Cui hic libellus?
Omnibus discipulis
Atque magistris.

— Robert P. Sonkowsky
University of Minnesota