08 May 2008 00:30
Keeping", trans
Keeping", trans. of "Guardar" by Antonio Cicero, for "Camões' Feast" installation by Regina Vater in Brazilian Visual Poetry exhibition, Mexic-Art Museum, Austin, Tx. Jan. 17-Mar. 18, 2002.Keeping
("Guardar"1996)
Antonio Cícero
trans. Charles A. Perrone (2001)
Keeping something is not to conceal it or leave it under lock and key.
Nothing at all is meant for keeping in coffers.
Offers in safes are being lost from sight.
Keeping something is to look at, after, and up to it,
to guard and regard it, that is,
to illuminate it and be illuminated by it.
Keeping something is to watch over it, that is, to remain vigilant for it,
that is, to stay awake for it, that is, to be for its sake before and after.
That is why one better keeps the flight of a bird
Than birds without flights.
That is why one writes, one speaks, one publishes,
That is why one declares and declaims a poem:
To keep it:
So that it, in turn, may keep guarding its keepsakes:
May keep whatever a poem keeps:
That is the deal with poems:
That keeping whatever wants keeping
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(via)ARS POÉTICA WALY SALOMÃO
OPERATION CLEAN-UP (trans. Charles A. Perrone)
Saudade: longing, yearning (for someone), "memory imbued with longing;"
fond remembrance; nostalgia; homesickness. Taylor, Portuguese English Dictionary
I Saudade is a word
Of the Portuguese language
Whose spate and flow
I am always against
Saudade is a word
To be banned
From common usage
From colloquial expression
From the constitutional congress
From dictionaries
From onomasticons
From epistolary practice
From tombstones and epitaphs
From geographical charts
From popular songs
From phantasmatic bodies
From the map of affection
From the shores of poetry
Not to leave alluvial
Deposits
Here
On this river bank.
Charles A. Perrone Professional Web Site
(via)Translations and Poetry
Translations of poetry by Paulo Leminski, Horácio Costa, Régis Bonvicino, Décio Pignatari, Augusto de Campos (two links to originals; see also Big Bridge Special Spring 2007) Antônio Cícero, Ademir Assunção, Alexander Horner, Adriano Espínola, Carlito Azevedo, Ricardo Corona, Claudia Roquette-Pinto, Neuza Pinheiro, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, Marcos Prado, and Waly Salomão.
Co-editor of Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual coming April 24, 2008. Tigertail Productions of Miami.
Co-translator of First World Third Class (Pau de Arara Classe Turística) by Regina Rheda, see link above
Poetry: SIX SEVEN, chapbook at www.moriapoetry.com. e-books link.
in Autumn harvest, Moria, Moria, Mandorla: Nueva escritura de las Américas / New Writing from the Americas,Literatura de expressão portuguesa nos Estados Unidos; Suplemento Literário Minas Gerais,Dirty Goat,Vortex / Affinities,Esprit , Dactylus, O Globo,Fénix, Románica
** ATT NB visuals **:Dimensão Inspirations: PESSOA and a house plan.
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