tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1858454538187432037.post5877357103498308757..comments2023-05-14T02:13:31.056-07:00Comments on ein klage-himmel: Everything Transforms (Lucian Mănăilescu)James Owenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07614935078978354375noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1858454538187432037.post-66966880411903047912015-06-08T06:53:12.854-07:002015-06-08T06:53:12.854-07:00Roxana: :-))
i felt very lucky to get this photo...<b>Roxana:</b> :-))<br /><br />i felt very lucky to get this photo!!! the light was so precise that one sees the grid <i>through</i> the butterfly's wings, as if it is illustrating something about an orderliness that underlies appearances, like the game of molecules and atoms in the poem <br /><br />i had not known the poem or ever heard of Lucian Mănăilescu, either ... but i receive the email newsletter from a translation workshop at the University of Bucharest, and this poem was included there, with a student's translation that i did not like very much (very plain and literal). it is a nice little poem, but i don't know if i would have translated it, without having the photo ... the newsletter came to my inbox at just about the same moment when i took the photo, so the coincidence was too much to ignore :-)<br /><br />. James Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07614935078978354375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1858454538187432037.post-53041590366671145142015-06-08T06:42:03.423-07:002015-06-08T06:42:03.423-07:00WAS thank you! i like the poem, too ... it seems...<b>WAS</b> thank you! i like the poem, too ... it seems to me a very poetic thought, that the world we perceive is more or less a constructed consensus that isn't necessarily very much like the game of matter and energy that underlies it all and drives transformation. noumena vs. phenomena, of course, and a contemporary version of nature as "a spume that plays / upon a ghostly paradigm of things" ...<br /><br />.<br /><br />James Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07614935078978354375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1858454538187432037.post-34433750901419762322015-06-08T04:48:26.370-07:002015-06-08T04:48:26.370-07:00OHHHHHHHHHHH
what an amazing photo this is!!!!!!!...OHHHHHHHHHHH<br /><br />what an amazing photo this is!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is this your window? and the butterfly came to sit at your window? it seems one with the delicate grid, an embroidery, a fantasy almost...<br /><br />and a poem from a romanian poet i haven't even heard about!!! what a surprise this is! :-)<br /><br />i am dashing this off in surprise, i will come later to say more, after i read the texts carefully...Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14744287536426329556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1858454538187432037.post-76416341035371838722015-06-06T11:04:08.264-07:002015-06-06T11:04:08.264-07:00Excellent translation, James! I don't know the...Excellent translation, James! I don't know the original, of course, but it comes off in English as a fine poem, with a truly special poetic sense.WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1858454538187432037.post-16903778511023108182015-06-05T13:04:44.062-07:002015-06-05T13:04:44.062-07:00Totul se transformă
E-un joc de molecule şi atom...<b>Totul se transformă</b> <br /><br />E-un joc de molecule şi atomi <br />pe care-l ştim, dar nu-l putem pricepe, <br />căci apele, curgând, se schimbă-n nori <br />iar munţii, aşteptând, se schimbă-n stepe. <br /><br />Pier fluturii-n noianul de culori, <br />stele decad în pulberea astrală, <br />oamenii ard în flăcări de ninsori <br />înzăpezind o lume ireală. <br /><br />Şi numai visul, plăsmuind imperii, <br />şi numai gândul, ce-a murit pe limbă, <br />şi numai c-am simţit şi că am fost <br />nu ştim, nu bănuim, în ce se schimbă.<br /><br />.James Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07614935078978354375noreply@blogger.com