American writer and poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950), a lawyer by profession, but better known for his poetry collection, Spoon River Anthology, exemplifies the difficulties in admirable fashion identification of work skills by writing: but it sees the vocation of the lawyer or the sensitivity of the poet?
The writer Fernanda Pivano, who translated the famous library, says: "I was a girl when I read for the first time Spoon River : Cesare Pavese had brought me one morning that I had asked what is the difference between the American and English literature '(1). It was a stroke of lightning: "I opened it right in half, and I found a poem that ended like this: Kissing her lips to the soul, the soul of a sudden I ran . I wonder why these verses the breath away: it is so difficult to explain the reactions of adolescents [1].
and scholars of male and female, here is a reflection of the poet on the chemistry of love.
Trainor, THE PHARMACIST
Only the chemist can tell, and not always what comes out of the union
of fluids or solids.
And who can say how men and women will
between them, or what children will result? There were Pantier
Benjamin and his wife,
good in themselves, but bad with each other:
him oxygen, she hydrogen,
their son, a devastating fire. I
, Trainor, the druggist, a mixer of chemicals,
died while making an experiment, I lived without
married.
1 - Fernanda Pivano introduction to the Italian edition of Spoon River Anthology (http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antologia_di_Spoon_River)
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