El Cento Oxford de David Lehman
If the sun shines but approximately
Only where love and need are one,
Who in this Bowling Alley bowld the Sun?
Of whom shall we speak? For every day they die
Younger than their kids -- jeans, ski-pants, sneakers.
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
Waking far apart on the bed, the two of them.
And so it was I entered the broken world.
Good morning, Daddy!
Every woman adores a Fascist,
Doing a man's work, though a child at heart.
When I am slitting a fish's head,
Would he like it if I told him?
Odd that a thing is most itself when likened,
Everything only connected by ''and'' and ''and.
There are no flowers in Hell.
Give all to love,
A burnt match skating in a urinal
That never lost a vote (O Adlai mine).
What you get married for if you don't want children?
And because it is my heart,
Above, below, around, and in my heart,
Blessed be God! For he created Death!
And rock-grained, rack-ruined battlements.
One's sex asserts itself. Desire
And that White Sustenance --
Despair-- in a Sahara of snow,
As a sort of mournful cosmic last resort.
Meanwhile, the men, with vestiges of pomp,
Weep for what little things could make them glad.
We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride hurt each other.
And I wish I did not feel like your mother.
Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,
There is nothing lowly in the universe.
I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
The sea in a chasm, struggling to be
Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth,
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
Where strangers would have shut the many doors,
Except the one she sang and, singing, made.
Heard on the street, seen in a dream, heard in the park, seen by the light of day,
What is yours is mine my father.
What more is there to do, except stay? And that we cannot do.
And this is not as good a poem as The Circus
Especially the lines that are spoken in the voice of the mouse.
He opened the car door and looked back
And clapped his hands and shouted to the birds.
And that was the whole show.
Para el curioso, cada una de las líneas pertenece, respectivamente, a los siguientes poetas y poemas:
Only where love and need are one,
Who in this Bowling Alley bowld the Sun?
Of whom shall we speak? For every day they die
Younger than their kids -- jeans, ski-pants, sneakers.
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
Waking far apart on the bed, the two of them.
And so it was I entered the broken world.
Good morning, Daddy!
Every woman adores a Fascist,
Doing a man's work, though a child at heart.
When I am slitting a fish's head,
Would he like it if I told him?
Odd that a thing is most itself when likened,
Everything only connected by ''and'' and ''and.
There are no flowers in Hell.
Give all to love,
A burnt match skating in a urinal
That never lost a vote (O Adlai mine).
What you get married for if you don't want children?
And because it is my heart,
Above, below, around, and in my heart,
Blessed be God! For he created Death!
And rock-grained, rack-ruined battlements.
One's sex asserts itself. Desire
And that White Sustenance --
Despair-- in a Sahara of snow,
As a sort of mournful cosmic last resort.
Meanwhile, the men, with vestiges of pomp,
Weep for what little things could make them glad.
We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride hurt each other.
And I wish I did not feel like your mother.
Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,
There is nothing lowly in the universe.
I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
The sea in a chasm, struggling to be
Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth,
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
Where strangers would have shut the many doors,
Except the one she sang and, singing, made.
Heard on the street, seen in a dream, heard in the park, seen by the light of day,
What is yours is mine my father.
What more is there to do, except stay? And that we cannot do.
And this is not as good a poem as The Circus
Especially the lines that are spoken in the voice of the mouse.
He opened the car door and looked back
And clapped his hands and shouted to the birds.
And that was the whole show.
Para el curioso, cada una de las líneas pertenece, respectivamente, a los siguientes poetas y poemas:
Laura Riding, ''The World and I.'', Robert Frost, ''Two Tramps in Mud Time.'', Edward Taylor, ''The Preface'' to ''God's Determinations Touching His Elect.'', W. H. Auden, ''In Memory of Sigmund Freud.'', James Merrill, ''Self-Portrait in TyvekTM Windbreaker.'', Edgar Allan Poe, ''Annabel Lee.'', John Ashbery, ''Decoy.'', Hart Crane, ''The Broken Tower.'', Langston Hughes, ''Good Morning,'' from ''Montage of a Dream Deferred.'', Sylvia Plath, ''Daddy'.', Robert Frost, '' 'Out, Out --' '', Elinor Wylie, ''The Puritan's Ballad.'', Gertrude Stein, ''If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso.'', Richard Wilbur, ''Lying.'', Elizabeth Bishop, ''Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance.'', H. Phelps Putnam, ''Bill Gets Burned.'', Ralph Waldo Emerson, ''Give All to Love.'', Hart Crane, ''The Tunnel.'', John Berryman, ''Dream Song No. 23, T. S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land.'', Stephen Crane, ''In the Desert.'', Conrad Aiken, from ''Preludes.'', Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ''The Jewish Cemetery at Newport.'', Jean Garrigue, ''Song in Sligo.'', Herman Melville, ''After the Pleasure Party.', Emily Dickinson, ''I Cannot Live With You.'', Emily Dickinson, ''I Cannot Live With You.'', Robert Lowell, ''For the Union Dead.'', Anthony Hecht, ''The Dover Bitch.'', Jean Toomer, ''Georgia Dusk.'', Robert Frost, ''Directive.'', Walt Whitman, ''Song of Myself.'', Edna St. Vincent Millay, ''Rendezvous.'', Anne Bradstreet, ''The Author to Her Book.'', A. R. Ammons, ''Still.'', Theodore Roethke, ''Dolor.'', Marianne Moore, ''What Are Years?'', Wallace Stevens, ''Sunday Morning.'', Ralph Waldo Emerson, ''Concord Hymn.'', Edwin Arlington Robinson, ''Mr. Flood's Party.'', Wallace Stevens, ''The Idea of Order at Key West.'', Kenneth Fearing, ''Green Light.'', Walt Whitman, ''As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life.'', John Ashbery, ''The Instruction Manual.'', Kenneth Koch, ''The Circus (1975).'', Billy Collins, ''Workshop.'', Galway Kinnell, ''Hitchhiker.'', Robert Pinsky, ''From the Childhood of Jesus.'', Charles Simic, ''Country Fair.''
Si el sol no brilla sino aproximadamente
sólo donde amor y necesidad son uno,
¿quién en esta bolera jugó con el sol?
¿De quién hablaremos? Pues mueren cada día
más jovenes que sus hijos: mezclilla, pantalones de esquiar, tenis.
Y no se alzan las estrellas aunque vea sus ojos brillantes
que se apartan de la cama -los dos.
Y así fue que entré a este mundo roto.
Buenos días, padre.
Toda mujer adora un fascista
que trabaje como un hombre aunque de corazón un niño.
Cuando descabezo el pescado,
¿le gustará que se lo diga?
Resulta extraño que algo sea más sí mismo cuando nos gusta.
Todo se conecta unicamente con "y" y "y".
No hay flores en el infierno.
Dale todo al amor,
una cerilla que nada patinando en el orinal,
que nunca pierde un voto (oh Adlai mío).
¿Para qué te casaste si no quieres tener hijos?
Y porque este es mi corazón,
arriba, abajo, alrededor y en mi corazón,
bendito sea Dios que creó la muerte
y los lugares de roca repletos de ruinas.
El sexo propio se afirma solo. Deseo
y este blanco sostén --
Desesperación -- en un Sahara de nieve,
una especie de último recurso, lastimero y cómico.
Mientras los hombres, con vestigios de pompa,
se lamentan por aquellas nimiedades que podrían enorgullecerlos.
No herimos como se hieren aquellos que se prometen
y desearía que no me gustara tu madre.
Tú, deforme descendencia de mi debil mente,
no hay nada más bajo en el universo.
He conocido la inexorable tristeza de los lápices,
el amr en una grieta, luchando por ser
inmutable aunque tan semejante a nuestra agónica tierra,
a este banco verde, junto a este dulce arroyo,
donde los extraños hubieran cerrado las muchas puertas
excepto aquella que ella canta y, cantando, construye.
Oído en la calle, en un sueño visto, oído en el parque, visto a la luz del día.
Lo que es tuyo es mío, padre mío.
¿Qué queda por hacer salvo quedarse? Y no podemos.
Y este no es tan buen poema como el circo
especialmente los versos que se declaman con voz ratonil.
Abrió la puerta del carro y miró hacia atrás
y dio una palmada y les gritó a los pájaros.
Y eso fue todo.
2 Comments:
At 11:16 p. m., Anónimo said…
Marvelous work!
At 6:17 a. m., Anónimo said…
Por favor, podrías enviarme el poema de Wallace Stevens -Sunday Morning- a mi dirección de correo darkawe9@gmail.com o en su defecto decirme donde lo puedo encontrar?
Es que lo necesito para un examen y no consigo encontrarlo.
Muchas gracias.
Please, would you make me the favor of sending me via e-mail (darkawe9@gmail.com) the Wallace Stevens' poem called "Sunday Morning" or by contrast telling me where I can find it? I need it for an exam and I'm not able to find it.
Thanks a lot.
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