Jacob Brunner
on translating Gaius Valerius Catullus
These interpretations are willfully ignorant of archaism and historical lexis, aiming instead to expand on Catullus's natural coarseness with a comically outsized transgression achieved through lateral substitution and circumlocution.
about the author
Catullus was a poet during the late Roman Republic who died around 54 B.C.
about the translator
Jacob Brunner is a Greater Philadephia-area poet and musician.
