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Chargement... If There is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems (édition 2010)par Vera Pavlova (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is the book and the poet that made me rediscover poetry. Pavlova's poems speak to my heart in such an intimate way, I shudder... I miss her when I don't read her for a while... and for the first time in my life, I wish I knew Russian so that I could read her in the original. ( ) “Hell is where there is no way you can ever change.” 2015 Reading Challenge #44: A book that was originally written in a different language. (Escrito originalmente en ruso, traducido al inglés y reseñado en español :P) No hay nada más difícil de traducir que un poema (excepto, tal vez, una antología de poemas). Muchas veces el traductor debe tomarse ciertas licencias para intentar mantener la forma de la rima o el verso, sacrificando la esencia. Convirtiendo un poema en otro totalmente distinto. Es por eso que siempre me parece un poco injusto juzgar a un poeta por su traducción. Pero soy una neófita del ruso, así que esta versión en inglés era mi mejor opción para conocer a la popular Vera Pavlova (popular en el circulo de la poesía). Y lamento aceptar que no estoy para nada complacida. Los poemas en su mayoría se me hacen bastante meh. Versos con poca creatividad, que fallan en el uso de imágenes poéticas, y en evocar en el lector (y con "el lector" por supuesto que me refiero a mí) algún sentimiento distinto al aburrimiento. Sin embargo, debo admitir que en uno que otro verso pueden encontrarse, de pronto, destellos de genialidad. Así que le doy a Pavlova el beneficio de la duda; ¿tal vez es la traducción que no la favorece? Supongo que hasta que no aprenda ruso (probablemente nunca) no lo sabré. #GliréTip: El mejor poema es el que le da el titulo a el libro: "If there is something to desire", y para leerlo ni siquiera hay que comprarlo, porque ¡está completo en la portada! The truth is, poetry has always been something I find hard to get interested in. I rarely hate or love any that I read. This is the reason for rating down the middle with a 3. Its different when you or someone you are close to writes it because poetry often exposes the soul and internal world often kept hidden and those by friends and close ones,, because of that established connection, are worth it to me. Also, I should mention these are very short poems and I recommend checking it out at the library first. Then, if you find one you can't live without buy it. ;) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
I broke your heart. / Now barefoot I tread / on shards. Such is the elegant simplicity--a whole poem in ten words, vibrating with image and emotion--of the best-selling Russian poet Vera Pavlova. The one hundred poems in this book, her first full-length volume in English, all have the same salty immediacy, as if spoken by a woman who feels that, as the title poem concludes, "If there was nothing to regret, / there was nothing to desire." Pavlova's economy and directness make her delightfully accessible to us in all of the widely ranging topics she covers here: love, both sexual and the love that reaches beyond sex; motherhood; the memories of childhood that continue to feed us; our lives as passionate souls abroad in the world and the fullness of experience that entails. Expertly translated by her husband, Steven Seymour, Pavlova's poems are highly disciplined miniatures, exhorting us without hesitation: "Enough painkilling, heal. / Enough cajoling, command." It is a great pleasure to discover a new Russian poet--one who storms our hearts with pure talent and a seemingly effortless gift for shaping poems. "From the Hardcover edition." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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