Poetry

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   admin 19. Jun, 2010 at 6:32 pm #

   The translation of the Neruda poem above is about as close as I can come to how poetry has affected my life. For those to whom it sounds familiar, a different translation was featured in the 1994 Italian film about Neruda, Il Postino (The Postman).RT
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   admin 19. Jun, 2010 at 6:30 pm #

   Poetry

   And it was at that age … Poetry arrived
   in search of me. I don’t know, don’t know where
   it came from – winter, a river.
   Don’t know how or when,
   no, not voices, not
   words, or silence,
   but from a street it called me,
   from the branches of night,
   suddenly among others,
   among violent fires
   or going home alone,
   there I was without a face
   and it touched me.

   – Pablo Neruda

   From the poem, “Poetry” [Poesía] originally published in Pablo Neruda’s 1964 collection, Memorial de Isla Negra.

   Translation © Rhea Tregebov

   LA POESÍA

   Y fue a esa edad… Llegó la poesía
   a buscarme. No sé, no sé de dónde
   salió, de invierno o río.
   No sé cómo ni cuándo,
   no, no eran voces, no eran
   palabras, ni silencio,
   pero desde una calle me llamaba,
   desde las ramas de la noche,
   de pronto entre los otros,
   entre fuegos violentos
   o regresando solo,
   allí estaba sin rostro
   y me tocaba.

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