Elisabeth Bishop
(Worcester 1911-Boston 1979)
Discussion
.
by Miracle at breakfast
(selection of poems by
"The Complete Poems, 1927-1979")
Adelphi - 2006
Translated by Damiano Abeni,
Riccardo Duranti, Ottavio Fatigue
.
---------
.
Days who can not or will not
nearest port,
Distance which strives to appear
stubborn to say the least,
discuss discuss discuss
tirelessly with me without trying
that you are less desired or less expensive.
.
Distance: remember those regions
under the plane?
That costs
immersed in the sand beaches of vague
that extended indiscriminately
to the end, since
where my reasons end?
.
Days:
and think of all the instruments piled,
in practice one,
, canceling each other's experience and were
as a horrendous schedule
"Gift & More Never Forever, SpA".
.
Eco intimidating
items
we find separate
can be defeated and will be:
Days Distance and again thrown into the fray
and fleeing
is once and for all by the sweet that battlefield.
.
---
Argument
.
Days That Can Bring You near
or will not,
Distance Trying to appear
Something More Than obstinate,
Argue Argue Argue with me endlessly
neither proving you less wanted nor less dear.
.
Distance: Remember all that land
beneath the plan;
that coastline
of dim beaches deep in sand
stretching indistinguishably
all tha way,
all the way to where my reasons end?
.
Days: And think
of all those cluttered instruments,
one to a fact,
canceling each other's experience;
how they were
like some hideous calendar
"Compliments of Never & Forever, Inc."
.
The intimidating sound
of these voices
we must separately find
can and shall be vanquished:
Days and Distance disarrayed again
and gone
both for good and from the gentle battleground.
.
----------------------------
I chose this poem because this morning I said a lot of things, but I struggle to understand the last sentence in Italian translation. Perhaps that that confusing. Do you know an 'other translation of the poem? I'd like to read it.
.
--------------------------------
0 comments:
Post a Comment