Hi Jesse,
thank you. My name is Anny (double N, :-).
I first met Skip thanks to the Poets' Corner of which I am the editor:
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
great for the Pantoum week. Here is one by Baudelaire and a translation I
attempted:
*Harmonie du soir
*
Voici venir les temps où vibrant sur sa tige
Chaque fleur s'évapore ainsi qu'un encensoir;
Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir,
Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige!
Chaque fleur s'évapore ainsi
qu'un encensoir;
Le violon frémit comme un coeur qu'on afflige;
Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige!
Le ciel est triste et beau comme un grand reposoir.
Le violon frémit comme un
coeur qu'on afflige,
Un coeur tendre, qui hait le néant vaste et noir!
Le ciel est triste et beau comme un grand reposoir.
Le soleil s'est noyé dans son sang qui se fige.
Un coeur tendre, qui hait le néant
vaste et noir,
Du passé lumineux recueille tout vestige!
Le soleil s'est noyé dans son sang qui se fige...
Son souvenir en moi luit comme un ostensoir!
Charles Baudelaire <http://poesie.webnet.fr/poemes/France/baudelai/7.html>
.
*Evening Harmony*
*.*
*.*
Here is the time when
vibrating on its stem
Every flower evaporates as a censer;
Sounds and perfumes move around in the evening air;
Melancholic waltz and languorous vertigo!
.
Every flower evaporates
as a censer;
The violin thrills as a distressed heart;
Melancholic waltz and languorous vertigo!
The sky is sad and beautiful as an Altar of Repose.
.
The violin thrills as a
distressed heart,
A tender heart that hates nothingness, black and vast!
The sky is sad and beautiful as an Altar of Repose;
The sun has drowned in its blood that freezes.
.
A tender heart that hates nothingness
black and vast,
From the luminous past it gathers all vestige!
The sun has drowned in its blood that freezes…
Her memory in me gleams like a monstrance!
translation: Anny Ballardini
On 3/2/07, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Thanks you guys for the good words. Amy, how do you know Skip?
>
> Also, I'd like to propose a project of sorts for the list. I've always
> been interested in Pantoums and would like to propose a pantoum creation
> week starting sometime in April or May (will be out of town most of this
> month)--the best products of which will become an e-chapbook on the
> ahadadabooks website. Is that of interest to anybody? If not, not.
> Jess
>
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