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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Cut These Words into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs
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New Country (Tales of Antediluvia Book 1)
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My Book of Old Greek Epitaphs: What Reviews are saying
Here are a few blurbs from reviews of my book, "Cut These Words into My Stone" published by Johns Hopkins. The book has just been shortlisted for PEN's 2014 Translation Award for poetry. I have to say, all this is a big surprise to me. Hey, maybe even the old Greeks are sitting up in their graves and feeling noticed! 2500 years old, some of them.
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“To our towering friendship
I've raised this little stone.
Sabinus, I will look for you forever.
If things turn out as people say
And you join the dead,
To drink from the river
That helps men forget,
Please don't drink the drop
That makes you forget me.”
― Cut These Words into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs
I've raised this little stone.
Sabinus, I will look for you forever.
If things turn out as people say
And you join the dead,
To drink from the river
That helps men forget,
Please don't drink the drop
That makes you forget me.”
― Cut These Words into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs
“If you notice this tomb at all as you pass,
Don't smirk because it only holds a dog.
I was wept for.
My master's hands heaped up this dirt,
Then cut these words into my stone.”
― Cut These Words into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs
Don't smirk because it only holds a dog.
I was wept for.
My master's hands heaped up this dirt,
Then cut these words into my stone.”
― Cut These Words into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs
“I wish fast ships had never been invented.
We wouldn't be standing here now
Mourning Sopolis, Diokleides' son.
His homeless corpse floats lost at sea
While we bow our heads in passing,
Not to him - to a name on an empty tomb.”
― Cut These Words into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs
We wouldn't be standing here now
Mourning Sopolis, Diokleides' son.
His homeless corpse floats lost at sea
While we bow our heads in passing,
Not to him - to a name on an empty tomb.”
― Cut These Words into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs
“تبسمك في وجه أخيك صدقة، وأمرك بالمعروف صدقة ونهيك عن المنكر صدقة، وإرشادك الرجل في أرض الضلال لك صدقة، ونصرك الرجل الرديء البصر لك صدقة، وإماطتك الحجر والشوك العظم عن الطريق لك صدقة
Smiling in your brother’s face is an act of charity.
So is enjoining good and forbidding evil,
giving directions to the lost traveller,
aiding the blind and
removing obstacles from the path.
(Graded authentic by Ibn Hajar and al-Albani: Hidaayat-ur-Ruwaah, 2/293)”
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Smiling in your brother’s face is an act of charity.
So is enjoining good and forbidding evil,
giving directions to the lost traveller,
aiding the blind and
removing obstacles from the path.
(Graded authentic by Ibn Hajar and al-Albani: Hidaayat-ur-Ruwaah, 2/293)”
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EPITAPH Writing Contest (with a FREE BOOK PRIZE!)
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PEN Literary Award nominee Michael Wolfe is hosting a weekly "Epitaph Writing Contest" this month. Each week's winner will receive a free copy of his ...more