Homunculus by James Womack Drew Milne his erotic energies

his erotic energies

In this ambitious lyric sequence

each new line is a sharp turn toward joy and heartbreak

rivers burst their banks and the first time he takes a shot on a basketball court

Homunculus by James Womack Drew Milne his erotic energiesHomunculus is a long poem from award winning poet and translator James Womack, based around the Elegies of the Roman poet Maximian. The last of the Roman poets, Maximian wrote in the sixth century, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire; critics have called his Elegies 'one of the strangest documents of the human mind', and W. H. Auden singled him out as a 'really remarkable poet'. Womack's versioning of the Elegies shows how this harsh poem of