Romanian "moment" By Ion Pop Could Someone Post The Original?
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zeering
Wednesday 21st of May 2008 02:07:52 AM
"Moment" by Ion Pop: The English translation of this poem was included in a review of an anthology I am interested in buying called "Born in Utopia: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Poetry."
It is so wonderful in the English that I am hoping that someone out there has access to it in the original Romanian and might be willing to take the time to post that here for comparison & study. Multumesc in advans.
Here is the poem
MOMENT by Ion Pop
In the upper corner of the window
I see walnut leaves quivering
in the noon wisp of wind,
and a starling feather floating down.
All I can do for it
is put it down here, to catch in coal black,
on the point of my pencil,
its gold:
maybe to make its fall slower, slower.
(translated by Adam Sorkin and Liviu Bleoca)
Wow.
zeering
Wednesday 21st of May 2008 02:12:13 AM
Here is a link to the anthology at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Born-Utopia-Anthology-Contemporary-Romanian/dp/1584980508/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211310162&sr=1-1
And here is a link to that review
http://galatearesurrection6.blogspot.com/2007/05/born-in-utopiaromanian-poetry-edited-by.html
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