The Saskiad, page 38
My most important debt by far is to Richmond Lattimore, whose magnificent translation of the Odyssey crops up in gemlike fragments throughout the Saskiad. I would love to be able to say that the grave and beautiful description of the island of Ithaca that opens this book — "low and away, last of all on the water toward the dark" — was my own. It is Lattimore's.
BRIAN HALL, The Saskiad
