Showing posts with label Translation of Fables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Translation of Fables. Show all posts

Thursday, October 7, 2010

A translation of Irina Moga's poem "Histoires"

Irina Moga is a Canadian poet at whose "Artist's Studio" blog I've been recently reflecting on Bogdan Luca's recent Niagara Peninsula artwork. She is a superb poet whose French poetry appears in her Nouvelle Poésie Canadienne. A more detailed biography of Irina Moga can be found at The Writers' Union of Canada website. The following poem is translated here with permission of the author. I will be posting more translations in the near future.


Histoires

Un inventaire de petites plumes,
des cailloux, insérés dans la chair du sens,
et à peine cousus
dans l’ourlet de lumière

qui fait remuer la poussière dans les corridors
de la maison.

Des histories dans lesquelles notre imagination s’accroche,
dans les fragments du désir,
et la légèreté de ta paume,

musique répétitive,
torrent
d’une harpe.
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Fables

An inventory of plumelets,
pebbles, stored inside the feeling body,
barely sewn
inside a stitch of light

that stirs up dust in the corridors
of home.

Fables to which imaginations hold fast,
and broken desires,
and the lightness of your palm,

a song without end,
the harp's
stream.

(trans. by C. DiDiodato)