During last Wednesday's very well-attended (14 guys!) Zoom discussion of Puerilities, Daryl Hine's translation of poems from the notorious 12th Book of the Greek Anthology, Mike Mazza shared a couple of items in the chat box regarding consent that I wanted to memorialize here. The first is Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture and Sex (1996), edited by Michael Bronski; the second is a 2010 BBC report on "The sexually abused dancing boys of Afghanistan" by Rustam Qobil. I'd add that Khaled Hosseini's 2003 novel, The Kite Runner, also features that fraught topic as a major element. (A movie based on the novel was released in 2007, and a theatrical adaptation just debuted on Broadway.)
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It is too bad that appreciation of literary works of more than 2 dozen authors in this anthology was overcome by a couple poems by one bad actor.
With all due respect, I have a different interpretation of our discussion. Most attendees did express appreciation for the literary merit of the epigrams (not so much Hine's translations thereof), and the criticism of certain poems did not change that verdict.
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