Off Topic: Speaking of puns still further

[Grant Barrett]

Speaking of puns still further:

I just this second finished reading John Balaban's notes on the translation of the
poetry of Ho Xuan Huong. She wrote in a language no longer spoken and the poetry
itself is loaded with earthy puns and sexual double entendres.

http://www.aprweb.org/issues/sept00/balaban.html

Some of the poetry itself, English version only:

http://www.aprweb.org/issues/sept00/huong.html