An overabundance of a good thing. Origin of Embarrassment of Riches This idiom is a literal translation of a French play, L’Embarras des richesses, from the year 1726, by the writer Leonor Jean Christine Soulas d’Allainval. It was translated to English by John Ozell and opened in London in 1738.
An Embarrassment of Riches
Diamonds, what crushing weight they've been under
The Emerald speaks of her brooch companions, Fakes!
Sapphire says no more, touchy Topaz says, Quite right!
The ruby feels exactly the same - each is a reluctant gem!
Bored, you wouldn't see them on Te Hena o Mai'o,
"The Queen's Diadem"
And the little Moonstones have to agree,
nothing but an embarrassment of riches!
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
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