Louise Glück (1947)
Archaic Fragment
I was trying to love matter.
I taped a sign over the mirror:
You cannot hate matter and love form.
It was a beautiful day, though cold.
This was, for me, an extravagantly emotional gesture.
.......your poem:
tried, but could not.
I taped a sign over the first sign:
Cry, weep, thrash yourself, rend your garments—
List of things to love:
dirt, food, shells, human hair.
....... said
tasteless excess. Then I
rent the signs.
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the naked mirror.
Archaic Fragment
I taped a sign over the mirror:
You cannot hate matter and love form.
This was, for me, an extravagantly emotional gesture.
tried, but could not.
Cry, weep, thrash yourself, rend your garments—
dirt, food, shells, human hair.
tasteless excess. Then I
the naked mirror.
[From ‘Poetry’ (2004)]
Vaig escriure un rètol damunt del mirall:
No pots odiar la matèria i estimar la forma.
Era, per a mi, un gest emocional extravagant.
ho intentava, però no podia.
Crida, plora, esgarrapa’t, estripa’t la roba...
Brutícia, menjar, petxines, cabells humans.
excés sense gust. Aleshores
el mirall nu.
Un poema de la guanyadora del Premi Nobel de Literatura 2020. Versió
lliure meva. Font: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/louise-gluck#tab-poems
Imatge (Wikimedia Commons): Un cartell amb la fotografia de Louise
Glück (1977), anunciant un recital seu al Poetry Center. Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago.

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