The Love that Dare Not Speak its Name: Catullus 31 ¹

Phoning it in this week (hey, moving’s stressful) with something of a previously-on: here’s my first-place entry for the Wellesley English Department translation contest. Sharp-eyed readers will note a continuing dialogue with my first blog post here, but I’ll let the treatment speak for itself…

Catullus 51 and the Erotics of Absence

In which we consider the absence of a woman, and the queer desires her negative provokes.