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A number of translations from a pleiade [Politicians love this word, I know; but then, so do I] of favourite poets, including Mallarmé, Valéry, Antonio Machado, Decio Pignatari, Huidobro, Juana Inez de la Cruz, Octavio Paz, Rumi, Marcos Konder Reis, Sousandrade, herein join my own modest incursions into the art of Eliot, Donne, Keats, Pope, Hopkins, Coleridge, Poe, Yeats, Auden plus other eminent, brilliant poets. As one might expect, I deplore the sentimental, artificial approach to verse-making. I rather liken poetry to prototype candidness, or, to quote myself, Lucky is he who has the chance to observe / The rueful flight of the splendiferous condor / Ah! to be nothing else than the soul s soul… / I wonder: are abysses truths, or tricks? I see it as the job of any kind of artist to help release his creative stamina, and poetry can be effective for that purpose. Who first called it a speaking picture with the end to teach and delight? Philip Sidney [in Defence of Poesy]. Yehudah Amichai called poetry a filibuster against despair. Ted Hughes called it a journey into the inner universe, and an exploration of the genuine self . Poetry is a slow yet powerful way of reaching our feelings and emotions, our main subconscious, driving forces of energy. I ve been taught that emotions are dangerous, they can distort judgement, they cannot be relied upon whenever one has decisions to make, and they have little to do with truth. I do acknowledge myself, therefore, as part of the natural world, subject to the unseen, non-sonorous, yet often beneficial and harmonious spiritual forces of the cosmos. [J.G. Correa]
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GenrePoetry, Children's Literature
Length1 hr 6 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 19, 2010
LanguagePortuguese
Table of contents
1Translations:
2Ah! such elusive and poor architecture!
3least of all the monotony of geometry.
4Grugel was a 16th Century Frenchman
5another form of man's cruelty – cannibalism.
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6(sometimes, in one day two or maybe three
7the members and meat cuts of beaten enemies.
8like the gravestones of a villainous cemetery.
9Whenever the Tupinambas, allies
10the pertinent style, or the proper gravity
11In due time, trade winds and pacific waters
12in his pointless personal purposes.
13on the horizon; at two a.m. Pinta
14So, at a most immature of stages
15Vessels, thanks to the compass and the astrolabe
16Castillian justice's but a slender thread!
17childhood fantasies with resplendent mandarins.
18my privileges and dignities, in case
19Santa María de la Antígua.
20everything that the fierce Conquistadors
21for the expenses of four troublesome journeys.
22a permanent and lucrative position.
23One third of Hispaniola's population
24and the indifference of the English King?
25to court judgement and two months in a dungeon.
26The area where life upon the sterile winter
27and the Morrow of the unlucky.
28JACQUES PRÉVERT (from 'Fatras')
29RUMI's random touchstones
30Light in my bosom the serious fire
31The dream, as heavy as ham, hangs from the ceiling
32Ink costs nothing.
33GEORGES SEFERIS' 'Love Song'
34A fragrant bright coma on the face
35When in August, the eye's blissful drinking
36and re-awake in the morning, as a proud victory hero!
37RAFAEL ALBERTI's sonnet 'To Federico García Lorca'
38by your lone voice among storms.
39What pure work of fine flashes consumes many
40Golden ceiling with a thousand tiles. Roof!
41Over altitude a sovereign disdain
42After so much pride, after so much strange
43Presumes a dull half of shadow.
44Attracts such body to this bone-full ground?
45Where much marble trembles over much shadows;
46The prudent doves, vain dreams, and curious angels:
47A vague people under the roots of trees
48The teeth, the wet eyelids, the charming bosom
49No longer with such hues of lies which toward
50A beautiful lie, and a pious trick!
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