forget thee
Ian Dreiblatt forget thee | Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021 Basil Bunting wrote: To appreciate present conditions/ collate them with those of antiquity. Indeed, there are a lot of analogues in our world to the ancient: our worship of icons as gods, our worship of artistic as well as military feats, and perhaps most of all in the way we value owning your opponent. Ian Dreiblatt, presumably no Internet troll, is adept at a more sensitive task: that of delineating modern/ancient dialectics, most markedly thru a series of dialogues with ancient figures, in an untitled sequence of lyrics which makes up the center of forget thee . We see that these teleported mythical figures wonder about our world with just as much seemingly innocent curiosity as we do about theirs. what did you do for fun, I ask her, drank actual milk with actual honey in it in the shade by a river, she tells me, is it any wonder our preoccupations were w