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Poetry in Translation IX – (Horia VINTILA), Dedication

December 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Diaspora, PEOPLE, Poetry, Reviews, Translations

DEDICATION (Vintila Horia)
Through streets of Babylon I look confused
For Thee my Lord to come in your pursuit
My voice is hoarse and broken like a lute
Which lost its soul for being over used.

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“Blouse Roumaine – the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women”: what the Readers say:

September 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books, Diaspora, PEOPLE, Poetry, Reviews, Translations

Constantin Roman invites us for a walk, during which he enjoins past and present alike, in a brisk coming and going of the narrative. It is a narrative that cannot suddenly end, but rather one which compels us to start all over again and revisit. It is a truly wonderful gift, a very happy surprise indeed of an inherently original book, which haunts us like the persistent music of those Romanian women’s voices.” (French Government Adviser, Paris)

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Poetry in Translation IV (W.B. YEATS) – In Memoria D-relor Eva Gore-Booth si Con Markiewicz

August 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Poetry, Translations

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Poetry in Translation V -(Ada TYRRELL) – MY SON – Fiul meu (Fragmente)

August 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Poetry, Translations

Ada Tyrrell (1854-1955), Anglo-Irish writer and socialite is best known for her poem “My Son” written during WWI. In the context of the current British engagement in Irak and Afghanistan it has a particularly poignant relevance. fregments of this poem are rendered into Romanian.

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Josef Ozga Michalski (1919-2002, Polonia): Sase poezii

August 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off · PEOPLE, Poetry, Translations

Josef Ozga MICHALSKI, Poland (1919-2002)
DE LA ANTIPOZI
Ma darui Frumosului
Ca norul – vantului
Ca somnul desteptarii
Ca noaptea – zorilor
Nu pot lega vantul
Nu pot scapa desteptarii
Zorilor nu ma pot ascunde
Sa te intrezaresc, numai, de as putea
Prin globul de sticla
Prin oceane
In loc sa scriem scrisori
Sa indreptam privirile, numai, de am putea
De la antipozi
Si prin cele doua mari
Sa privim in [...]

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Cinci Poeti Canadieni: Jean-Guy PILON, H. de SAINT-DENIS GARNEAU, M. WADDINGTON, Gregory M. COOK si E.W. MANDEL

August 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off · PEOPLE, Poetry, Translations

Jean-Guy PILON (Quebec, Canada)
STRAINUL ACESTA (L’ETRANGER D’ICI)
Era dintr-o tara de corsari bigoti
Unde inconstienta era luata drept dogma,
Imbecilul drept stapan
Iar nebunul drept ntelept
Era o tara de lupte inutile
Si de ruini magnifice
O tara mancata de viermi
Cand a vrut sa-si strige mania
Nu i s-a ingaduit sa o faca
De abea l-au lasat sa moara.
(Published under the title “Din poezia [...]

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Guy CHAMBELLAND (1927-1996), Poet Burgund: “Cand bataia inimii se stinge”/ “Quand le coeur tout d’un coup me manque”/”When the heart suddenly fails”

July 30th, 2006 · Comments Off · PEOPLE, Poetry, Translations

Guy CHAMBELLAND (1927 – 1996)
QUAND LE COEUR TOUT D’UN COUP ME MANQUE
Quand le coeur tout d’un coup me manque, qui dois-je
me faire, eau ou pierre, pour m’habiter inhabitable?
Ne suis-je qu’une vieille, ne suis-je qu’un pitre?
Poème, statue sur l’eau, – mais moi?
Comme j’avançais encore, maladroit entre chiens et
roses, entre femmes et dieux, la mort me mit [...]

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Mircea Dinescu (b. 1953): Three Poems (Romanian English and French)

June 25th, 2006 · Comments Off · PEOPLE, Poetry, Translations

Mircea DINESCU (b. 1953) – Three Poems
“A DRINKING BINGE WITH MARX”
“O BETIE CU KARL MARX”, (Poems, 1989).
(Translated FROM ROMANIAN by Constantin ROMAN, London, February 2003)
“Venerable Marx, if you lived in these lands
You would be quickly clean shaven and sent to a school for re-education.
The fact that even the cows from the East
Which grazed near [...]

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Nicolae Ceausescu – In Memoriam (by Adrian Paunescu)

June 7th, 2006 · Comments Off · PEOPLE, Poetry, Translations

Editor’s Note:
We have not heard from Mr. Paunescu for some time, at least not since his memorable appearance in the United Kingdom, as guest of the International Poetry Festival “Stanza’s”, at the University of St. Andrew’s, Scotland, A.D. 2000.
As our readers will recall, this Festival was organised by the talented Scottish bard, Dr. Gavin Bowd [...]

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SMARANDA – In Memoriam Smaranda Braescu (1897-1948)

May 29th, 2006 · Comments Off · Books, PEOPLE, Poetry, Translations

NOTA BIOGRAFICA
Fragment din:
Blouse Roumaine – The Unsung Voices of Romanian Women
(Centre for Romanian Studies, London, 2009)
(1,100 pages, 160 Biographies, 600 quotations)
http://www.blouseroumaine.com/buy-the-book/index.html
SMARANDA BRAESCU s-a nascut intr-o familie de tarani moldoveni din judetul Barlad. A fost parasutista, pilot, campioana europeana la parasutism (1931) si mondiala (in 1932, cu recordul de 7.200m la Sacramento, SUA). Pentru acest record [...]

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