I’m trying to be enthused about sneaking out of work and starting the weekend early, but the college football season is done. ***This POET’S Day poet is Vladimir Nabokov, but before I get to him I’d like to take a moment and mention Thomas Karshan, currently listed by the University of East Anglia website as Associate Professor of Literature. Like most people, I learned about Nabokov from The Police in 1980 and eventually read Lolita in high school because I thought I wasn’t supposed to. Nabokov wrote brilliantly in Russian, English, and French. The last two stanzas, translated below by Dmitri Nabokov, speak to his gradual acceptance of his homeland as something other than home.

Source: Washington Post January 13, 2023 14:24 UTC