Poetic-Verses from ATHANASE
Dream (English)
(όνειρος)
'...and it's us who look to see what beauty is.'
Charles Olson
How the air is full of moon,
how cool it is tonight
under the tall palms.
The sand has opened its heart
and the whole land is
pure song!
Come, my love,
sing with me,
let me pour my melody
onto your skin
like a fine wine
that trickles where
it will.
Let this poem be a breeze
kissing
the river
of your veins,
O my Love,
my diamond,
so silent, so untried.
translated from the French of Athanase Vantchev de Thracy
by Norton Hodges 25.01.06.
Notes:
Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970): an important American modernist critic and poet who was an essential link between Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. His literary reputation was established with Call Me Ishmael (1947), a study of the influence of Shakespeare and other writers on Melville's Moby-Dick. Later he became noted as a poet. Olson wrote what he called “projective” (open) verse, which he believed transmitted energy from the past to the reader. His works include The Maximus Poems (1960 and 1968), Casual Mythology (1969), and Poetry and Truth (1971).
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