Gedichte von Mark Strand, Samuel Noyola, James Schuyler und Louise Bogan

 

Die Neueinstellung der zuvor bei FixPoetry veröffentlichten Gedichtübersetzungen schreitet fort. 

Heute sind die Übersetzungen der Gedichte von Mark Strand (1934-2014, USA), Samuel Noyola (geb. 1965, Mexiko), James Schuyler und Louise Bogan (beide USA) hinzugekommen.

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Squeaky Clean Herds – a Haiku

 

Matsuo Bashō / James Schuyler

  

A Madlib Haiku

In the pitiless sky
these squeaky clean herds
A dull armpit

by Bashō & Schuyler & Iself

Note

This haiku was written by Madlib based on input from James Schuyler – specific words from his poem The Dog Who Wants His Dinner (contained in The Crystal Lithium, published in 1972). Madlib appears to use words by haiku master Matsuo Bashō in generating its haiku. Ultimately, I myself can also claim some part of the authorship because I was the one who selected the Schuyler poem and the words to be used from it. How's that for collaboration across centuries and media?

What he needed from me I have no idea

The places cats won't go. The climbing out onto the banks. The naked man
in the glaring white gap

Hot black dunes in the air—we slept
the chill of closed eyelids,
not April and the magnolias

The trick is to make it personal:
let silence drill its hole,
sleepily indifferent

– Johannes Beilharz

Collated for NaPoWriMo day 22. The task was to participate in the cento contest organized by Danielle Pafunda (who has been posting her NaPoems over at the Bloof Books website). What’s a cento? It’s a poem composed entirely of lines from other poems.
The above poem is composed entirely of lines tweeted today by Danielle through the twitter feed of the Academy of American Poets.
The authors of the lines I chose are, in the sequence of the appearance of the lines: Anne Carson Nox, Catie Rosemurgy, Medbh McGuckian, Henri Cole, Marina Tsvetaeva, James Schuyler, Khaled Mattawa, Daniel Johnson, William Carlos Williams