I awoke in strange clothes./But they look good (bit.ly/1htfNxG). L.F. Rosens To My Translator is this weeks Video Pick. Translation by Paul Vincent (ironically not the poems addressee): TO MY TRANSLATOR For Craig Raine Here and there a button’s gone, a collar, a seam’s fit to burst, the shears have missed the flesh by a whisker and I miss too the black bordering of the commas and stops after words picked purposely by me. Although his hands trembled with excitement when he stuck his needles in my sentences, he was not piqued by my questions. Loose ends stay loose, in any other language too. I awoke in strange clothes. But they look good, though my own kit, I thought, did too and seemed to fit a slightly bloodier- minded sort. © 2008, L.F. Rosen From: Droomvlees Publisher: Wagner & Van Santen, Sliedrecht, 2008 © Translation: 2009, Paul Vincent
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 11:19:06 +0000
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