1200-Year-Old Birdsong

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  1. Lyle Daggett
    Lyle Daggett April 17, 2013 at 1:44 am .

    It was apparently not uncommon for monks copying Latin manuscripts to add small verses of their own (or, possibly, that they remembered from somewhere) in the margins of the pages. When I was at the AWP conference last month, at the bookfair table of Adastra Press I found a small letterpress book, Marginalia Poems from the Old Irish translated by Louis McKee, published in 2008; according to McKee

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